Declarative configuration applied to course scheduling

This thesis describes a course scheduling system that models planning as a satisfiability problem in relational logic. Given a set of course requirements for a degree program, our system can find a schedule of courses that will complete these requirements. It supports a flexible XML format for expressing course requirements and also handles additional user-specific constraints, such as requirements that certain courses be taken at particular times. Various optimizations were included in the translation to relational logic to improve the performance of our system and the quality of its results. We ran experiments on our system using degree programs from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as input, and found that our approach is competitive with conventional planners.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Yeung, Vincent S. (Vincent Shu Hang)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Daniel Jackson.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37092

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/37092