Author(s)

Chaoyao Ni

Corresponding Author

Chaoyao Ni

ABSTRACT

Today, the number of exams and students in colleges are quite large, while the number of in-service teachers is limited. Accordingly, the invigilation scheduling and arrangement becomes a difficult and complicated resource management problem. In existing scenarios, due to the consideration of various factors, this heavy work is done manually by the staffs and the result is always not very satisfactory as well. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective optimization scheme to balance the workload of each in-service teacher, to minimize the total workload, to provide sufficient rest time for teachers, and to make the best invigilation effect. Then, we use Lingo to obtain the locally optimal solution for the invigilation in Zhejiang University of Technology. The results validate its effectiveness and operability.

KEYWORDS

Workload equalization; multi-objective scheduling and management; 0-1 integer programming; college invigilation