A5V@PSUVM.BITNET (10/27/88)
I would appreciate receiving any lead to works done on expert systems
apply to student advising (curriculum advising)
Thanks
Al VAlbuenasiping@b.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Siping Liu) (10/31/88)
I did a project in an advanced AI class last term which seems what you
are looking for. It was done in LASER, a C-based object-oriented knowledge
representation facility (similiar to KEE).
Of course you won't like to look through the 2,700 lines of codes and
I dono't think you can run it yourself -- you need LASER and RPS (a PS like
OPS5).
Functions:
. A student can input his interests and get advise on who is better to be
his reserach advisor and his class plan to get his degree according to the
degree policy and what class he has taken. He can also specify classes
he wants to take next term and the program will check the time conflicting
among the class schedule, if he has satisfied the pre-requires of the
class, if the class has saturated (if so, a message will send to the
professor and he is put into the waitting list. The professor can put him
in the class if he wants to), warning if this guy has chosen too many
classes for one term or if too much programming work he'll face, etc.
. The Dept. sectary can set up/modify a student's record (what class he has
taken before and scores). She can check every student's record.
. The head of the Dept. has the priviledge to see every student's record,too.
He can also set policy for each class.
. A professor can see the class enrollment and student names. He can only see
the records of students advised by him.
. Many more things I prefer to skip for the sake of saving your time.
I planed to bring in some features such as in case of a contradictory between
a student and his teacher, the problem will be submitted to the head of Dept.
The motivation for my professor to give this assignment is to have a taste on
the problem of Concurrent Engineering (where a lot of experts work together to
solve a design problem) which is a research project in West Virinia University.
I will be glad if I could be any help.srt@aero.ARPA (Scott R. Turner) (11/02/88)
In article <58885A5V@PSUVM> A5V@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I would appreciate receiving any lead to works done on expert systems >apply to student advising (curriculum advising) I believe that Harry Tennant's Ph.D. thesis from University of Illinois from ages ago (70s?) was about a curriculum advising system. This was probably the first major attempt at such a system. The thesis was published in book form, but I doubt that it is still available. Maybe a good library will have a copy, or you could try ordering the dissertation from U of I. -- Scott
finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin) (11/05/88)
In article <40522@aero.ARPA>, srt@aero (Scott R. Turner) writes: >In article <58885A5V@PSUVM> A5V@PSUVM.BITNET writes: > >I would appreciate receiving any lead to works done on expert systems > >apply to student advising (curriculum advising) > >I believe that Harry Tennant's Ph.D. thesis from University of Illinois >from ages ago (70s?) was about a curriculum advising system. This was >probably the first major attempt at such a system. The thesis was >published in book form, but I doubt that it is still available. Maybe >a good library will have a copy, or you could try ordering the dissertation >from U of I. Tennants 1981 Dissertation was about the evaluating NLP systems. The exact title is "Evaluation of Natural Language Processors". It was available as report T-103, Coeerdinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Tennant publised a book in the same year entitled "Natural Language Processing" (Petrocelli Books, Inc., Princeton; ISBN 0-89433-100-0). Which was a survey of the NLP field. In that book, he discussed the "Automatic Advisor", a system he did (circa 1976-77) for his MS thesis at the U. of Illinois at Chigaco Circle. -- Tim Finin finin@prc.unisys.com Paoli Research Center ..!{psuvax1,sdcrdcf,cbmvax}!burdvax!finin Unisys 215-648-7446 (office) 215-386-1749 (home) PO Box 517, Paoli PA 19301 215-648-7412 (fax)