Abstract
Scheduling of lectures at a large university or a college is a complex and specialized task. There are many rules for the schedule, no ideal solution and no one is able to formalize the rules and the quality of the result.
This prevents the use of any automated scheduling system, requiring each lecture to be scheduled by humans. There are several other dimensions involved in the process, besides time and space, which resulted in the requirement for a highly specialized tool that visually presents as much relevant information to the users as possible and allows them to conveniently schedule the lectures.
This paper describes the MetroNG application, the visual interactive tool for multiparametric multidimensional scheduling, which we created to address the complex issues of scheduling at universities.