A MAS approach to course offering determination

Fuhua Lin, Alex Newcomb, A. J. Armstrong

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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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012
    Pages331-336
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012 - Macau, China
    Duration: 4 Dec. 20127 Dec. 2012

    Publication series

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

    Conference

    Conference2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityMacau
    Period4/12/127/12/12

    Keywords

    • course-offering determination
    • multiagent systems

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