• DocumentCode
    2057141
  • Title

    Visualization Techniques on the Examination Timetabling Pre-processing Data

  • Author

    Thomas, J. Joshua ; Khader, Ahamad Tajudin ; Belaton, Bahari

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    11-14 Aug. 2009
  • Firstpage
    454
  • Lastpage
    458
  • Abstract
    This paper follows a method to effectively provide useful visualizations to the examination timetabling problem. The results are some interactive visualization that should provide a much more sensible way of analysis, since it requires having to pay more attention for a complete understanding of the data and also, offers more data at the same time frame and space for the schools. We present the analysis we have made to effectively provide the visualization that built-in us, the Prefuse Visualization Toolkit to develop within tree view on the data and other information visualization techniques are being handled based on the suitability. We call this raw data as preprocessing since it is not put into any scheduler to generate timetables. Finally, interactive visualization has helped timetablers, to improve on assigning of timeslots for the exams in a particular school.
  • Keywords
    data visualisation; educational administrative data processing; interactive systems; Prefuse visualization toolkit; examination timetabling pre-processing data; information visualization technique; interactive visualization technique; tree data view; Computer graphics; Data preprocessing; Data visualization; Decision making; Educational institutions; Human computer interaction; Information analysis; Knowledge representation; Processor scheduling; Visual analytics; Examination timetabling; Graph visualization; Information visualization; visual analytics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, 2009. CGIV '09. Sixth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tianjin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3789-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CGIV.2009.23
  • Filename
    5298764