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Kalinangan Refereed Journal

Volume no. 28 | 2020/12
Issue no. 2


Title
A PROPOSED MODEL OF INSTRUCTORS’ TEACHING LOAD DISTRIBUTION USING GOAL PROGRAMMING
Author
Engr. Rosa Maria Castillo, Engr. Bingo Cueto, Engr. Allyzza NicholeVelasco
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Abstract
Every academic institution periodically prepares a class-course-faculty assignment, termed as university timetabling. This paper addressed one of the stages of the university timetabling problem which is teaching load distribution to faculty members. Using a weighted goal programming model to optimize the instructor-subject-section assignment, the proposed program simultaneously maximizes subject preferences and minimizes deviations in the total number of units and number of courses loaded to the instructors. The proposed model which contained 400 decision variables and 230 constraints was tested in a specific department in an HEI wherein the necessary data including instructors' preference ratings, subject offerings, and institutional policies were considered and incorporated in the model. The Large-Scale LP Solver Engine of Analytic Solver obtained the optimal solution in less than a minute. Different combinations of weights for the goals were also considered in the model and their results were compared to the actual load distribution. The results of the proposed model provided instructor-course assignments with higher total preference ratings and lower deviations in their number of units and preparations.
Keywords
course assignment, faculty Load distribution, goal programming optimization
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