A decision support model for long-term course planning

摘要

Assisting students to prepare long-term course plans towards timely graduation is a challenging and time-consuming advising activity. Unless appropriate decisions are made, undesirable consequences may occur. Earlier, an approach called Interactive Decision Support for Course Planning (IDiSC) was developed. IDiSC performs a pro-active analysis of the impact of the different aspects of the problem and eventually suggests a study plan that balances students' preferences and advisors' recommendations, without violating any regulations. IDiSC employs mathematical optimization and follows an evolutionary and iterative decision support framework, called EVOLVE*.