Real-Life Faculty Examination Timetabling to Utilise Room Used

Abstract

Examination timetabling is an important and yet tedious task to do in every semester. The large number of courses and students increase the difficulty of developing a good examination timetable. Furthermore, the examination timeslots and rooms are very limited in this case study. Therefore, an improved version of two-stage heuristic is proposed and developed a web-based prototype (Faculty Examination Scheduling System, FESS 2.0) to solve faculty examination timetabling problem at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The prototype has been practically used starting from Semester II, 2016/2017. The main objective of the proposed solution is to maximise the room utilisation and minimise the number of rooms for a splitting examination. The outcome of research not only outperform the previous prototype FESS 1.0 but also enhance the services given by faculty management.