This paper presents a real-world examination timetabling problem from Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia. The problem involves assigning invigilators to examination rooms. This problem has received less attention than the examination timetabling problem from the research community partly...

We introduce a novel variant of the travelling salesmen problem and propose a hyper-heuristic methodology in order to solve it. In a competitive travelling salesmen problem (CTSP), m travelling salesmen are to visit n cities and the relationship between the travelling salesmen is...

There are many successful evolutionary computation techniques for automatic program generation, with the best known, perhaps, being genetic programming. Genetic programming has obtained human competitive results, even infringing on patented inventions. The majority of the scientific literature...