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TimeFinder v4: Automatic Educational Scheduling

Today the TimeFinder Team (its me ;-)) announces the availability of TimeFinder v4! TimeFinder allows universities and schools to reduce and even avoid conflicts in the timetable! TimeFinder will improve the work of the human timetabler at the institute. A...

0 replies - 818 views - 11/24/09 by Peter Karich in Announcements

The Examination Timetabling Problem

Next week I 'll give a presentation about the timetabling problem at Devoxx. But what is it exactly? In the examination timetabling problem we need to assign exams to periods (AKA timeslots) and to rooms. Each student takes several exams. This would be easy,...

4 replies - 5501 views - 11/11/09 by Geoffrey De Smet in Articles

Solving Planning Problems: Introducing the Drools Solver

Planning problems are everywhere! Have you ever moved houses and needed to fit all your belongings into a moving truck? Usually you put all the big stuff in first, and then cram the little stuff in between. But what is bigger? A tall, thin closest or a wide...

13 replies - 14083 views - 08/17/08 by Geoffrey De Smet in Articles

FlexGantt 1.1 Swing UI Framework

Release 1.1 of FlexGantt, the Gantt Charting framework for Java,  is available for download now. FlexGantt is a commercial user interface framework built on top of Swing.

2 replies - 5494 views - 04/30/08 by Dirk Lemmermann in Announcements