An intelligent decision support system for teaching duty assignments

Author

Kwok, L.F. ; Lau, W.T. ; Kong, S.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

fYear

1996

fDate

18-20 Nov 1996

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Teaching duty assignment is an important aspect of human resource management in a secondary school. This problem is currently solved by human planners. A prototype of an intelligent decision support system for teaching duty assignments (TDAS) has been successfully constructed and validated. The assignment aims to incur minimum dissatisfaction among teachers by distributing workload evenly among teachers. The automation of such a planning activity can reduce the pressure on a planner that is induced from the anxiety of teachers. This system is the first of its kind in Hong Kong secondary schools. The algorithms have been tested on a set of real life data of a secondary school. The result was compared with its counterpart which was produced manually by the school principal with favourable comments

Keywords

decision support systems; educational administrative data processing; human resource management; knowledge based systems; personnel; planning (artificial intelligence); problem solving; teaching; Hong Kong; human planners; human resource management; intelligent decision support system; planning; problem solving; prototype; school administration; secondary school; teacher dissatisfaction; teaching duty assignments; Computer science; Decision support systems; Education; Educational institutions; Humans; Intelligent systems; Knowledge acquisition; Mathematics; Process planning; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Systems, 1996., Australian and New Zealand Conference on

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3667-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANZIIS.1996.573898

Filename

573898