Authors:
Wanderley de Souza Alencar
;
Hugo Alexandre Dantas do Nascimento
;
Fabrizzio Alphonsus A. de M. Nunes Soares
and
Humberto J. Longo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Alameda Palmeiras, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia-GO and Brazil
Keyword(s):
Timetabling, Visualization, Educational, Systematic Review of the Literature, Scheduling, Interactive, NP-hard problem.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
General Data Visualization
;
Information and Scientific Visualization
;
Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization
;
Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization
;
Visual Representation and Interaction
;
Visualization Applications
Abstract:
This paper investigates, through a Systematic Review of the Literature (SRL), the application of advanced Information Visualization (IV) methods to the Educational Timetabling Problem (Ed-TTP). The aim is to show how IV can facilitate the human perception of the several elements embedded in a school or university timetable scheduling. We also investigates how interactive IVs have been proposed to help creating/improving timetabling solutions, particularly when time conflict is a major challenging to be solved. In this SRL we considered publications from the last twenty years (1998–2018) indexed by seven solid scientific databases. The review clearly identified that there is a small amount of studies devoted to the intersection between IV and Ed-TTP in that period. Ideas for future research in this intersection field are discussed.