FESP. (c1995)

Abstract

Final Exam Scheduling is a real and troublesome problem that all institutions of higher education are fuced with a few times a year. This report presents the implementation of a Final Exam Scheduling Package (FESP) at the LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. FESP distributes the final exams among the exam sessions and assigns exams to classrooms. It takes into consideration student conflicts and accommodates splitting of exams among classrooms and sharing classrooms among exams. We present the package specification, the approach, the algorithms, the design, and the implementation techniques (using ORACLE R-DBMS and Tools). The experimental results obtained on real-life data show that FESP yields a substantial decrease in the number of exam conflicts in comparison with those obtained by the manually prepared exam schedule.