Decision Support System for Managing Educational Capacity Utilization

Abstract

Decision-making in the field of academic planning involves extensive analysis of large data volumes originating from multiple systems. With the many new technology application areas evolving from the domain of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science, deans and department chairs must ensure that new specializations and programs are adequately supported. Academic workload management is concerned with distributing teaching resources to support the university's educational framework adequately (faculties, degrees, courses, admission policies, teaching workload, etc.). This work presents a methodology for assessing educational capacity and planning its distribution and utilization, implemented as a decision support system allowing simulation and evaluation of various proposals and scenarios. The system integrates input data from relevant sources into an autonomous data warehouse. Graphical client front-end ensures adequate output presentation to the decision-makers by revealing significant details and dependencies in the data. Applying the system as an "on-the-fly" decision-support utility by the policy-makers leads to significant acceleration of planning procedures, deepens the insight into the data and the underlying methodology, and, consequently, provides for more efficient academic administration.

A Survey: Data Warehouse Architecture

“…This paper provides a method for accessing educational capabilities and preparing its utilization, implemented as a "decision support system" permitting simulation and assessment of various applications and situations. Solution is provided by modeling a "supply -demand relationship" between teaching resources and students [23]. This paper offers a trustworthy "decision support" to the process of balancing educational demand and its supply in universities [23].…”

“…Solution is provided by modeling a "supply -demand relationship" between teaching resources and students [23]. This paper offers a trustworthy "decision support" to the process of balancing educational demand and its supply in universities [23]. In this scenario major components are, teaching resources and students, so a "supply demand relationship" is established between them [24].…”

Uma Abordagem de Data Warehouse Educacional para Apoio à Tomada de Decisão

“…[ Mansmann e Scholl 2007] apresentam uma metodologia para a avaliação da capacidade educacional e planejamento, inspirada pela reforma do sistema de ensino superior na Alemanha, sendo implementada como um sistema de apoioà decisão que permite a simulação e avaliação de várias propostas e cenários. O sistema proposto integra dados de entrada a partir de um DW e a apresentação da informaçãoé feita usando gráficos, gerando a saída adequada para os tomadores de decisão, revelando detalhes e dependências significativas nos dados.…”

A Conceptual Model of Admission System and Performance Evaluation for a University

“…Different Decision support system were offered in the academic domain to achieve different functionalities, to determine admission capacity and resource management [1,2] used a supply chain mechanism, [5] used Artificial intelligence, [4] uses a mathematical model and [16] used artificial neural network based on Indian Education system, to evaluate student performance [17] used a decision tree model and [7,15] uses statistics on student marks.…”