ROBUSTNESS ASSESSMENT OF A COURSE ASSIGNMENT PLAN ON CHANGING NUMBER OF GROUPS

Abstract

Course assignment planning aims on teachers assignments to their occupational groups, which, in addition to the condition of competence, meet a number of constraints, such as teaching workload, minimum staffing, etc. The assignment plan is exposed to disruptions caused by for example the absence of employees and/or the starting of unforeseen courses/faculties which are not considered so far. Problems related to this issue, and in particular those related to the robustness estimation of admissible variants of the planned course assignment to these types of disruptions, are not available in the literature. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to develop a measure of the robustness estimation of a course assignment plan dedicated to an arbitrarily selected type of disruption. Concept of robust assignment planning method to particular type of disruption is presented. The implementation of these methods should enable to estimate robustness of the planning assignment variants. Assignment plans that guarantee a given level of robustness also should be possible. Attached examples illustrate the practical applicability of the proposed approach.