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Record W7097848615

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto,

2008· article· en· W7097848615 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicScheduling and Timetabling Solutions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScheduling (production processes)Sequence (biology)Greedy algorithmHeuristicCourse (navigation)Lagrangian relaxation
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract. This paper describes a comprehensive course timetabling and student scheduling system that was developed for the University of Waterloo between 1979 and 1985. The system is based on a “demand-driven ” philosophy where students first chose their courses, and the system tries to find the best timetable to maximize the number of satisfied requests. The problem is first decomposed into small manageable sub-problems. Each sub-problem is solved in sequence using a greedy heuristic to assign times to sections, and a Lagrangian relaxation algorithm to assign classrooms. Timetable representatives from each department have interactive access to make final modifications. Finally, each student is individually assigned to the combination of course sections that maximizes timetable satisfaction and balances section sizes. The system has been used successfully for 15 years. 1

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.568
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.152
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.155 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2008
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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