Multi-neighborhood local search with room split balancer for exam timetabling: A case study
This study explicitly addresses the examination timetabling problem (ETP) at University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), which encompasses both online and physical exams treated within a unified framework of uncapacitated and capacitated formulations. Currently, faculty exam timetabling managed by proprietary systems meets basic constraints but needs to incorporate faculty and stakeholder preferences into a mathematical formulation, making solution quality difficult to assess. To address this issue, we propose a mathematical model that includes university-wide constraints a