1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "The interleaved constructive memetic algorithm and its application to timetabling" ?
For such problems, the authors present a new hybrid method, “ Interleaved Constructive Memetic Algorithm ” ( ICMA ) that interleaves memetic algorithms with constructive methods.. The authors also describe a real-world course timetabling problem, the “ Preparation School Timetabling Problem ” ( PSTP ), which is of particular interest because it has a highly hierarchical structure arising from various organisational requirements.. The authors give empirical results showing that ICMA performs better than the corresponding conventional MA on the PSTP.
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2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "The interleaved constructive memetic algorithm and its application to timetabling" ?
It is permitted to change all the assignments if it desires as a novel feature which extends the previously proposed strategies in [ 47 ] and [ 52 ].. Future work will also look into the mechanisms that underlie the ICMA, and the questions raised by this work.. Although applied here to a particular course timetabling problem, the proposed incremental strategy is a general strategy that can be adapted easily by the existing approaches for timetabling and scheduling.. There is already strong evidence that some examination timetabling [ 7 ], workforce scheduling, particularly nurse rostering [ 5 ], [ 6 ] problems are highly hierarchically structured which can be exploited by their method.
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