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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108
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Applying FireFly Algorithm to Solve the Problem of Balancing Curricula

Author 1: Jose Miguel Rubio
Author 2: Cristian L. Vidal-Silva
Author 3: Ricardo Soto
Author 4: Erika Madariaga
Author 5: Franklin Johnson
Author 6: Luis Carter

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 10 Issue 1, 2019.

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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.

Keywords: Balanced Academic Curriculum; Attraction of Fire-flies Meta-heuristic; Optimization

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}
}



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