A MAS approach to course offering determination

Fuhua Lin; Alex Newcomb; A. J. Armstrong

doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.167

A MAS approach to course offering determination

Fuhua Lin, Alex Newcomb, A. J. Armstrong

School of Computing and Information systems

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Course-offering determination (COD) for educational programs is the complex task of deciding what subset of courses an academic department or program should offer in a given academic term or semester. In this paper, we first model COD decision settings, e.g. modeling students as a group of self-interested agents, and then use a group decision-making protocol voting theory to aggregate the preferences of the different participants toward a single joint decision. Finally, we show how agent-to-agent negotiation techniques can be used to offer courses to mutual benefit between the department and the body of the students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012
Pages	331-336
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.167
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012 - Macau, China Duration: 4 Dec. 2012 → 7 Dec. 2012

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Name	Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012

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Conference	2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012
Country/Territory	China
City	Macau
Period	4/12/12 → 7/12/12

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course-offering determination
multiagent systems

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Lin, F., Newcomb, A., & Armstrong, A. J. (2012). A MAS approach to course offering determination. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012 (pp. 331-336). Article 6511703 (Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012). https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.167

Lin, Fuhua ; Newcomb, Alex ; Armstrong, A. J. / A MAS approach to course offering determination. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012. 2012. pp. 331-336 (Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012).

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Lin, F, Newcomb, A & Armstrong, AJ 2012, A MAS approach to course offering determination. in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012., 6511703, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012, pp. 331-336, 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012, Macau, China, 4/12/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.167

A MAS approach to course offering determination. / Lin, Fuhua; Newcomb, Alex; Armstrong, A. J.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012. 2012. p. 331-336 6511703 (Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012).

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Lin F, Newcomb A, Armstrong AJ. A MAS approach to course offering determination. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012. 2012. p. 331-336. 6511703. (Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012). doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.167

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