Applying FireFly Algorithm to Solve the Problem of Balancing Curricula

The problem of assigning a balanced academic curriculum to academic periods of a curriculum, that is, the balancing curricula, represents a traditional challenge for every educational institution which look for a match among students and professors. This article proposes a solution for the balancing...

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Published inInternational journal of advanced computer science & applications Vol. 10; no. 1
Main Authors Rubio, Jose Miguel, L., Cristian, Soto, Ricardo, Madariaga, Erika, Johnson, Franklin, Carter, Luis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published West Yorkshire Science and Information (SAI) Organization Limited 2019
Subjects
Algorithms
Balancing
Core curriculum
Curricula
Heuristic methods
Higher education institutions
Optimization
Optimization techniques
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Summary:The problem of assigning a balanced academic curriculum to academic periods of a curriculum, that is, the balancing curricula, represents a traditional challenge for every educational institution which look for a match among students and professors. This article proposes a solution for the balancing curricula problem using an optimization technique based on the attraction of fireflies (FA) meta-heuristic. We perform a set of test and real instances to measure the performance of our solution proposal just looking to deliver a system that will simplify the process of designing a curricular network in higher education institutions. The obtained results show that our solution achieves a fairly fast convergence and finds the optimum known in most of the tests carried out.
ISSN:2158-107X
2156-5570
DOI:10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108