Aplicación del método de composición musical al problema de asignación de unidades de enseñanza y aprendizaje Application of the Method of Musical Composition to the teaching and learning units assignment problem

Scheduling problems in educational institutions have a computational complexity that makes it difficult to obtain optimal solutions using exact methods. Thus, heuristic techniques have been used to generate feasible solutions in acceptable computation times. In this paper, we solve the problem of assigning teaching and learning units in the least number of quarters using a population heuristic, Method of Musical Composition. The generated solutions satisfy the requirements and show higher quality than manual-built schedules, so that they are currently being evaluated by the educational authorities.