Web Accessible Knowledge-Based Course and Classroom Scheduling Management

This thesis examines Course and Classroom scheduling problems. Course and Classroom Scheduling is a significant procedure in any educational institution. It is an open-ended problem in which courses must be assigned to classrooms and timeslots, meeting some set of constraints. Allocating classrooms and timeslots to courses employing a manual technique requires a lot time and human resource to deliver a good result that works absolutely without clashes. We develop a web interface to an existing knowledge-based course scheduler system to unravel this drawback. Our method reads through a web interface information from the user regarding courses, classrooms and course opening request for a specific semester. This data is stored in an SQL database, which is used to generate input files for Flora-2. The course scheduling program is written in Flora-2 and the Flora-2 interpreter is accessed through its JAVA interface to run the scheduler. The result of the scheduler is obtained through the JAVA interface again, stored in the database and presented to the user. Keywords: Scheduling, Timetable, Constraint, Frame-Logic, Knowledge Representation.