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 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.

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