The KTS Timetabling System, Version 1.9 (March 2009)

KTS Account for Visitor

This is a visitor account page. It is exactly like a real account page except that you can't change any of the information it contains. Feel free to look around. When you are finished, either return to the KTS home page or just leave the site.

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Message of the day

Welcome to KTS. Please feel free to email me with any problems
or suggestions you may have. I am particularly keen to hear from
people who have entered a complete instance; I am ready to work
very hard to make the solver perform well on any such instance,
but I need to know it's ready.

If you are happy with the solutions you are getting, and you don't
need anything from me, still I would like to hear from you. At
some point it will all become routine, but for now, it's still
early days and I would very much appreciate hearing about it.

If you do email me, be sure to include KTS or timetabling in your
Subject line. I get a lot of junk mail, and I need something
specific in the Subject line to distinguish the real stuff from
the junk.

Jeff Kingston
jeff@it.usyd.edu.au

Posted by Admin on 20 April 2009. To delete this message, click here.

Archives

Use this part of your account page to select the archive whose timetable(s) you want to work on, or to add a new archive. To delete an archive, select it and go to the deletion part of its page.

Tests of KTS Version 1.6
New archive

If you are a timetabling researcher interested in obtaining and solving example instances from this web site, you can download them from this account, by following the links above, but it is probably better to make an account of your own and copy the archives from the Visitor account into that account, so that you can upload your own solution sets into those archives later, and have KTS compare your solutions with the others. An operation to carry out this copy is available at this point in your own account.

Feedback

Use this part of your account page to give us feedback about your experiences with KTS: comments, suggestions, whatever. If you have succeeded in producing a timetable with KTS that you actually intend to use, please say so here. Update this feedback whenever appropriate. (Reports of technical problems, and questions that you need answers to quickly, should be emailed to jeff@it.usyd.edu.au; feedback is for less urgent things.)


Close your account

Use this part of your account page to close your KTS account. This will remove all trace of you and your timetabling data from the system. There is no possibility of ever getting your data back, so be very sure you want to do this. To close your account, select Close Account below and press Submit.

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Account information and agreement

Use this part of your account page to update the information held about you. You may change the information completely, if you are passing the account on to someone else, or just change some parts of it, for example your password. (The password boxes below are empty because KTS stores your password in encrypted form only, hence it cannot show it to you.)

Your account name is allocated automatically by KTS, so you can't change it yourself. If you change your name, however, your account name may change. In that case, you will see the new account name after you press Accept Agreement. The timetable archives and instances held in your account will not be disturbed.

Enter your surname and other names as they are usually printed (with initial capitals, etc.). Make up any password you like. You have to enter it twice, as security against making a typing error.

Your surname:
Your other names:
Your password:
Retype your password:

Agreement

By submitting this information, I, the user of this web site, indicate that I accept the following agreement with the administrator of this web site, with its author (Jeffrey H. Kingston) and with its sponsor (School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia).

  1. I agree to use this web site only under my own name.

  2. I agree to use this web site only for solving timetabling problems for institutions that actually exist and for which I am authorized to act, and to enter those institutions' true names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

  3. On behalf of those institutions I make all of the data I enter into this web site freely available to the author of this web site and to his colleagues in the timetabling research community world-wide, for the sole purpose of research into timetable construction. Exception: my name, and the addresses and telephone numbers of my institutions, I make available to the administrator of this web site only, for the sole purpose of administering this web site, including establishing my bona fides.

  4. I accept that this web site and the data I enter into it may not be available when I need it, and that this web site may not be able to solve my timetabling problem instances to my satisfaction even when available. I accept that this is fair and reasonable given the difficulty of the problem and the fact that this web site is being made available to me completely free of charge, owing to the decision of its author not to charge for the use of his intellectual property and software, and of its sponsor not to charge for its computer processing time, disk space, and network bandwidth that I will consume when using this web site.

  5. I accept that my account and data may be rendered inaccessible to me without notice by the administrator of this web site if, in his opinion, I have violated this agreement.

  6. I accept that my account may be removed permanently if it contains no instances that have been created or updated in the last 3 years; and that all of my data will be irretrievably lost if this occurs.

  7. I agree to allow other people to use my account only in accordance with items 2 to 7 of this agreement.

If you cannot accept this agreement, use the Back button on your browser now to leave this page.

The user of this web site may be an intermediary, such as a paid consultant or software system. An intermediary is bound by this agreement just like any other user, but in addition, an intermediary must inform each institution that KTS is being used, and what it is being used for.

Members of the timetabling research community and others are welcome to create accounts for the purpose of reviewing KTS or using its archiving features. When reviewing KTS, they are exempted from item 2 above, and may enter moderate amounts of fictitious data, under the name of the institution to which they are affiliated if any. They should remove all fictitious data and delete their accounts when their reviews are complete.

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