Balancing Academic Curriculum Problem Solution: A Discrete Firefly-Based Approach

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Dataset</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Number of iterations</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"></td><td class="align_center">With local search mechanism</td><td class="align_center">Without local search mechanism</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">BACP 8</td><td class="align_center">4</td><td class="align_center">6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">BACP 10</td><td class="align_center">36</td><td class="align_center">41</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">BACP 12</td><td class="align_center">9</td><td class="align_center">12</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">REAL 8</td><td class="align_center">5</td><td class="align_center">8</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">REAL 10</td><td class="align_center">9</td><td class="align_center">11</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">REAL 12</td><td class="align_center">13</td><td class="align_center">14</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Comparison of number of iterations required with local search mechanism and without local search mechanism.</div>

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