Constructing timetable model for government primary school in Malaysia/ Aliimran Nordin

This thesis is concerned with the problem of constructing timetable for government primary schools in Malaysia. These problems are interesting topic to study because neither modeling nor solving them is straightforward. Besides, it is difficult to make a clear-cut distinction between optimized and not optimized timetable. Because of the large diversity in acceptance criteria, realistic timetable construction problems are multidimensional. Each dimension may introduce its own characteristic aspects that add to the complexity of the problem. Therefore, a good understanding of timetable construction is needed to ensure that these problems can be solved and an optimized timetable can be created. To solve these problems, a heuristics method namely sequence technique has been chosen as a practical way to construct a timetable for government primary school in Malaysia. As a result, a model of constructing timetable was established after a deep study during this thesis.