Interactive decision support system for planned student scheduling using same-time scheduling in timetable

Abstract

Student scheduling takes place after the timetable is prepared. This is a very simple activity. This study is aimed at creating an interactive decision support system for planning related to student scheduling. This planning creates constraints at the pre-timetabling stage so that the complex part of student scheduling is easy at the post-timetabling stage. This study aims to address simultaneous study of backlog courses alongwith regular courses. Two methodologies are suggested to create these constraints which can be used to create different sets of courses scheduled at the same time. These methodologies employ assignment problem iteratively to arrive at courses to be scheduled at the same time. This research work has been tested with the real datasets of four semesters.