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Allocating students to industry placements is a necessary task in educational contexts that need optimization techniques. This article proposes a novel integer linear programming model where, differently to other proposals, students' and businesses' preferences are represented by means of competences. The model has been evaluated by using commercial and non-commercial solvers, showing the need for alternative open algorithms for larger instances.
Yassen et al. (Mon,) studied this question.