A Generalized National Planning Approach for Admission Capacity in Higher Education: A Nonlinear Integer Goal Programming Model with a Novel Differential Evolution Algorithm

Table 1

Problem attributes and their values.

Attributes	Values
= year of the plan	= 1 for the first year of the next plan (2015), 2 for the second, 3 for the third, 4 for the fourth, and 5 for the last = 0 for the last year in the previous plan (current year, 2014), for 2013, and so on
= university	= a university, , the set of all universities in the country
= status	stands for “enrolled” and for “graduated”
= gender	stands for boys section and for girls section
= education program	= a college in the medicine specialty, , the set of all colleges in the medicine specialty; = a college in the science and engineering specialty, , the set of all colleges in the science and engineering specialty; = a college in the arts specialty, , the set of all colleges in the arts specialty, and is the total number in all specialties , , and