Abstract: 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.

Jose Miguel Rubio, Cristian L. Vidal-Silva, Ricardo Soto, Erika Madariaga, Franklin Johnson and Luis Carter. “Applying FireFly Algorithm to Solve the Problem of Balancing Curricula”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 10.1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108

@article{Rubio2019,
title = {Applying FireFly Algorithm to Solve the Problem of Balancing Curricula},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
author = {Jose Miguel Rubio and Cristian L. Vidal-Silva and Ricardo Soto and Erika Madariaga and Franklin Johnson and Luis Carter}
}