Balancing the assignment of courses to semesters using Zero-One goal programming

Joint Authors

Agha, Salah
Ismail, Isra

Source

المؤتمر الهندسي الدولي الثاني للإعمار و التنمية الجامعة الإسلامية-غزة، 3-4 سبتمبر 2007

Publisher

Islamic University of Gaza Faculty of Engineering

Publication Date

2007-09-30

Country of Publication

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

No. of Pages

15

Main Subjects

Engineering & Technology Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

English Abstract

This paper describes a project of designing general departmental plan of study using zero-one goal programming.

First, a model that uses multiple objective programming is built, then it was used to construct the plan of study of industrial engineering department at the Islamic university-Gaza.

The output of the model is the assignment of courses to semesters according to the goals and constraints associated.

The resulting plan of study clearly outperforms the manually designed plan of study that is normally based on experience.

Furthermore, formulation of the problem systematically revealed that some constraints are usually unaccounted for in the plan.

The model was then solved using LP-Solve software.

The overall objective function could be decreased by an average of 45 %.

Finally, the model can be easily extended and applied to other departments.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-776079

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