Scheduling Examination Faculty Information Technology in UUM

• Main Author: Alsmadi, Hamzeh Mohammad Hussein
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://etd.uum.edu.my/972/1/Hamzeh_Mohammad_Hussein_Alsmadi.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/972/2/Hamzeh_Mohammad_Hussein_Alsmadi.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/972/

One of the problems that the university faces is the exams scheduling problem, this problem affects on both staffs and students. The efforts to solve this problem were started since long time, and it varies in use of the application and algorithms to solve this problem. In this study, the researcher exposed to this problem at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Because of the nature of the educational operation, students asked to register for elective and core courses, the elective courses are taken from other departments, which will make some conflict at the final exam schedule. The other type of conflict is reserving the same room to conduct two or more exams at the at the same time, since the faculty or college rooms are shared among the departments, the researcher in this study will implement an automated way to help in solving the conflict and make it easier to arrange such.