A Multi-Agent System for Course Timetable Generation
Published in: TEM Journal
Mar 01, 2019
zina houhamdi
Belkacem Athamena
In the university, course scheduling and preparation for each semester can be defined as the process of determining what courses to offer, the number of sections needed for each course, assigning of a faculty member to teach each section, and allocating a timeslot and a classroom for each section to avoid clashes. The output of this activity (which is a timetable) affects every faculty member and student in various departments. This process is essentially broken down into three main stages: det...
A Multi-Agent System for Course Timetable Generation
Published in: TEM Journal
Mar 01, 2019
zina houhamdi
Belkacem Athamena
In the university, course scheduling and preparation for each semester can be defined as the process of determining what courses to offer, the number of sections needed for each course, assigning of a faculty member to teach each section, and allocating a timeslot and a classroom for each section to avoid clashes. The output of this activity (which is a timetable) affects every faculty member and student in various departments. This process is essentially broken down into three main stages: det...
Managerial Decisions to Enhance Student/Customer Retention: The Case of Ontario’s Academic Institutions.
Published in: Interchange
Feb 14, 2019
Academic institutions invest significant sums of money to serve their students and to influence their decisions to stay. This study sheds light on the challenge for academic institutions to allocate their investments to keep students and enhance their retention rates. This study aims to investigate whether or not providing academic services has affected the retention rate in Ontario’s higher education market. The variable of academic services is measured through an examination of the effect ...
A new social contract: A recipe for higher education funding
Published in: A new social contract: A recipe for higher education funding
Feb 03, 2019
This book proposes that a new social contract between governments and citizens is needed to facilitate higher education funding. The rationale for this new social contract is based on the lifelong relationship of governments and citizens that should be seen as a partnership between two partners. The book assumes that the relationship between government and its learning citizens extends beyond citizens’ acquisition of knowledge or completion of degrees and includes different periods of funding i...
The Experience of three different user groups using personally controlled health record for multidisciplinary care team
Published in: Australasian Journal of Information Systems
Feb 02, 2019
Personally Controlled Health Records (PCHR) are patient-centric tools which allow individuals to own, manage, access and share their health information online from anywhere, at any time. Patient-centric tools have received considerable interest and investment in recent years worldwide. These tools are thought to have the potential to increase individuals' self-management and involvement in their own health, as well as improve healthcare efficiency and delivery. The aim of this study is to repor...
Experimental Validation of Receiver Sensitivity for 100-Mbps Data Rates in Seawater by Using 2.4 GHz-Low-Power Electronics
Published in: International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation
Feb 01, 2019
This paper presents an experimental validation of the receiver sensitivity for 100- Mbps microwave data communications in a typical subsea environment. It is demonstrated that underwater microwave-based pinless connector solutions can perform under conditions that have not been explored until now. Traditional “pinned” subsea wet-mate connectors require precise rotational and angular alignment to achieve efficient and reliable connections. The demonstrated flexibility offered by pinless connecti...