Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization for Scheduling Professor Evaluations in Cuban Higher Education

Authors

  • Pavel Novoa-Hernández Universidad de Holguín

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-19-2-2008

Keywords:

Professor evaluations scheduling, Team Building, Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization, NSGA-II.

Abstract

In Cuba, university professors are often evaluated during the development of a class. Scheduling these evaluations along the academic semester is a common task of the head of the department, which must to accomplish several criteria at the same time. Examples of these criteria are the presence of at least one tribunal member of the same academic unit, the presence of at least one tribunal member with equal docent category, the availability and the utilization level of the tribunal members, among others. However, scheduling professor evaluations can become a complex task if several professors and evaluations are considered. With aim of solving this problem, in the present work we proposed a computational approach based on: 1) modelling this task as a multi-objective optimization problem, and 2) solving this problem by adapting a variant of the very well-known evolutionary algorithm, NSGA-II. The results of the performed computational experiments show that our proposals contribute to obtain useful and quality solutions.

Author Biography

Pavel Novoa-Hernández, Universidad de Holguín

Pavel Novoa-Hernández es Ingeniero Informático por la Universidad de Holguín (Cuba) desde el 2007. Es Máster en Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial por la Universidad Central de Las Villas (Cuba), desde el 2010. En el 2013 obtuvo el grado de Doctor en Informática por la Universidad de Granada (España). Actualmente es Profesor Auxiliar del Departamento de Licenciatura en Matemática de la Universidad de Holguín. Sus intereses investigativos, relacionados con el área de la Soft Computing, incluyen: problemas dinámicos de optimización, meta-heurísticas, problemas de optimización multi-objetivo.

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Published

2015-06-01

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): 19(2) April-June 2015

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