TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper aims to consider the exam timetabling of the re‐sit session in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of Sfax. The objective is to find a timetable which minimizes the number of timeslots for exams required by the enrolled students.Design/methodology/approach– Two heuristic procedures based on graph colouring are developed and tested on real data to solve the exam timetabling problem at the faculty.Findings– These heuristics were tested on a simple example which shows the out‐performance of the second heuristic compared with the first one. When tested with the real data of the faculty, exam size heuristic provides a timetable with a shorter timeframe; however, the timetable obtained from the second heuristic is of better quality.Originality/value– The main contribution of this paper is to create an automated exam timetabling that helps the faculty to manage its own enterprise system.
VL  - 1
IS  - 3
SN  - 1750-6166
DO  - 10.1108/17506160710778095
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/17506160710778095
AU  - Dammak Abdelaziz
AU  - Elloumi Abdelkarim
AU  - Kamoun Hichem
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - An enterprise system component based on graph colouring for exam timetabling: A case study in a Tunisian university
T2  - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 255
EP  - 270
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -