Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Information Systems, 1996., Australian and New Zealand Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3667-4
DOI :
10.1109/ANZIIS.1996.573898
