The International Timetabling Competition 2019 was aimed to motivate further research on complex university course timetabling problems coming from practice.

The competition's goal was the creation of rich real-world data sets. Thanks to the UniTime timetabling system, the competition organizers collected a strong set of data with diverse characteristics. The key novelty lay in the combination of student sectioning together with standard time and room assignment of events in courses. To make the problems more attractive, some of the less important aspects of the real-life data were removed while retaining the computational complexity of the problems.

More information about the competition can be found on this website.