chill@cc.curtin.edu.au (06/28/91)
Hi, Our University has reached the end of its tether as regards trying to allocate rooms for examinations venues on a manual basis. The task is just too great. I have been asked to solicit information regarding automated room allocation systems. Available platforms are VAX/VMS, SUN/UNIX, Mac, MS-DOS, Windows, even MVS (perish the thought!). The software should be capable of taking two databases and optimising a match between them. The first database contains room number (6 digits), and seating capacity (4 digits) The second database contains unit number (5 digits), unit name (40 chars), and # students enrolled (5 digits). Of course, where the number of students enrolled exceeds the size of the largest room, the software would need the automatically allocate multiple rooms to accomodate those students. Look forward to hearing from anyone who has such a system currently, or whose organisation is marketing such a beast. Ian Hill Curtin University of Technology