Design and implementation of a decision support system to aid in the forecasting and scheduling of Administrative Sciences courses
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VanUs, Mark D.
Reagle, William G.
Date
1991-03Advisor
Liao, Shu Sheng
Dolk, Daniel R.
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The Administrative Sciences Department's faculty and course
scheduling process is complex and data intensive. The process
is driven by student enrollment forecasts provided to the
department by the Naval Postgraduate School's Program
Administration Assistant. The department currently has no means
for manipulating the forecasts.
This thesis develops a decision support system and its
associated dBASE IV-based relational database for use by the
Administrative Sciences Department in the forecasting and
scheduling processes. The system consists of four major
applications comprised of over 65 separate modules. The
database management application allows for management and
maintenance of the database files. The scheduling application
generates teaching schedules. The report generating application
produces all the reports required of the system by the department. Finally, the estimation application provides the
decision support portion of the system by allowing "what-if"
manipulation of the student enrollment data to see what impact
there will be on teaching requirements.
The system was developed within a Systems Development Life
Cycle framework. Due to the need to quickly produce a working
copy of the system, individual modules were developed using a
Version Development technique.
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