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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Universities havethree main missions which are education, research and community service. Theactivities related to these missions gain vitality through the elements of“human” and “space.” The Human element consisting of academic staff andadministrative staff working in universities represents the university's humancapital. The buildings titled as faculty, vocational school, hospital,laboratory, research center on the other hand, constitute the elements ofspace. These spaces, housing the activities of academic and administrativestaff, also represent the physical capital of universities. Universities notonly need to be continue their education processes successfully, but theyshould also be manage to the use of resources in the most effective way. Theclassroom is the center of the school activities. Classroom management is verydifferent from planning and evaluating other space needs. Without an effectiveclassroom management, the heavy investment in the school system could produceloss rather than gain. It relates to the effective classroom planning,management techniques and classroom utilisation in determining accurately howmany students the facilities will adequately support.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Classroomcapacity utilization is an economics concept which refers to the extent towhich a higher education institutes or a nation actually uses its availableclassroom capacity.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Therefore, the relationship between whether usedand how classroom is being used is very important. Classroom utilisation rateis a percentage-based ratio based on an occupancy rate and frequency rate. Thefrequency rate evaluates how many times that classroom is used compared to itsavailability, and the occupancy rate evaluates how many users can actually usethe space at one time the classroom is compared to its actual capacity. Themain purpose of this study is to analysis the classroom utilisation effects onexam timetabling problem with a self-generating memetic algorithm. The resultsfrom the analysis show that classroom utilisation rates for exam timetablingproblem should be addressed fully by top management. This study also offersthat in order to improve the classroom utilisation rate, higher educationinstitutes should think about the occupancy rate as it is the determining agentaffecting the utilisation rate.</span><br></p> |
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