Project Group Assignment System

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Project Group Assignment System

• CS616 Team 9
• Kim Doyle, Susan Kroha,
• Arunima Palchowdhury, Wei Xu
• Client Dr. Charles Tappert

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Project Group Assignment System

• Create project teams based on team participants
  preferences for
• Project
• Schedule availability for team meetings
• Location preference for team meetings
• Professional and academic experience

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Methodology

• Web interface - to enter information into a
  database and execute the algorithm
• Database - allows modifications to preferences
  and weights without impacting algorithm
• Java algorithm - creates teams based on
  preferences and weights

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System Architecture
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Interface

• Secure Login
• Instructor Page
• Manage Students, Clients, Projects, Teams
• Runs Java Servlet to form Teams
• Student Page
• Enter and update Preferences
• View teams

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Database

• Relational database
• Stores student and project information
• Allows student enrollment in more than one course
  in one semester
• Adapts to additions, deletions and changes of
  preferences and parameter weights

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Algorithm to Create Teams

• Preferences and parameter weights are used to
  create teams
• Three passes are convergent and one pass is
  divergent
• Larger groups are broken down based on scored
  preferences for the parameters

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Overview of Algorithm Structure
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Summary

• Tested successfully in Spring 2002 in two courses
  at Pace University
• System will be used at Pace in courses that
  require team formation
• The system is portable to other academic and
  professional institutions
• Demo

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Algorithm Subsystem
Run algorithm