Archived Abstracts
Time Management and Accurate Assigning Solution
Location
Room 232, Schewel Hall
Access Type
Campus Access Only
Entry Number
67
Start Date
4-8-2020 10:30 AM
End Date
4-8-2020 10:45 AM
Department
Computer Science
Abstract
This project is a solution to an ongoing time management and accurate assigning problem. A local middle school has a day every year for presentation, called “I Love Math Day”. Every student ranks the speakers he/she would like to hear. In the past, it took a person about nineteen hours to assign students to their sessions, and students complained about being assigned to sessions that were not on their list of choices. Our program was used to produce the schedule this year. It computed the schedules in less than 1 second. In the resulting schedules, 47% of the students were awarded all of their top 3 selections, and 92% of the students were awarded at least 2 of their 3 top choices. All the students were awarded at least one of their top 3 choices. Madeline Udowa built the optimization program and Robert Holt created the web interface.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Randy Ribler Dr. Will Briggs
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Time Management and Accurate Assigning Solution
Room 232, Schewel Hall
This project is a solution to an ongoing time management and accurate assigning problem. A local middle school has a day every year for presentation, called “I Love Math Day”. Every student ranks the speakers he/she would like to hear. In the past, it took a person about nineteen hours to assign students to their sessions, and students complained about being assigned to sessions that were not on their list of choices. Our program was used to produce the schedule this year. It computed the schedules in less than 1 second. In the resulting schedules, 47% of the students were awarded all of their top 3 selections, and 92% of the students were awarded at least 2 of their 3 top choices. All the students were awarded at least one of their top 3 choices. Madeline Udowa built the optimization program and Robert Holt created the web interface.