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Background of the study Timetabling is a way of assigning events into a limited number of time periods in such a way as to satisfy as many desirable objectives Burke Petrovic 2002 Various fields require scheduling and hence timetabling is applied These fields include job shop scheduling airline crew scheduling sports or tournament timetabling transportation timetabling and education timetabling University course timetabling is one of the subclasses of education timetabling and an NP complete problem Babaei Karimpour Hadidi 2015 Due to the variations in policies constraints hard and soft and objectives across the different institutions Gonsalves Oishi 2015 Jula Naseri 2011 it is very difficult to find exact or a perfect solution using a conventional optimization techniques Kanoh Chen 2013 The timetabling problem has been formulated in many and very different ways and has been addressed using several analytical or heuristic approaches Babaei et al 2015 Pillay 2014 Rossi Doria et al 2002 Numerous methods and approaches are proposed to solve the educational timetabling problem by using operational research based techniques Bakir Aksop 2008 Dandashi Al Mouhamed 2010 Razak Ibrahim Hussin 2010 meta heuristic approaches Alves Oliveira Neto 2015 Bellio Ceschia Di Gaspero Schaerf Urli 2016 Fonseca Santos 2014 Sani Yabo 2016 Yigit 2007 multi criteria and multi objective approaches Shahnazari Shahrezaei 2013 Smutnicki Pempera Rudy Zelazny 2015 intelligent novel approaches Alzaqebah Abdullah 2015 Jain Chawla Soares 2014 Oner Ozcan Dengi 2011 Shahnazari Shahrezaei 2013 Tarawneh Ayob Ahmad 2013 and distributed multi agent systems approach Feizi Derakhshi Babaei 2012 Lewis Paechter Rossi Doria 2007
