Practice Summary: Seminar Assignments in a University—MATLAB-Based Decision Support

Andreas Dellnitz (), Damian Pozo (), Jochen Bauer () and Andreas Kleine ()
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Andreas Dellnitz: Department of Business Administration, Leibniz University of Applied Sciences, 30539 Hannover, Germany
Damian Pozo: Department of Business Administration and Economics, FernUniversitat in Hagen, 58084 Hagen, Germany
Jochen Bauer: Department of Business Administration and Economics, FernUniversitat in Hagen, 58084 Hagen, Germany
Andreas Kleine: Department of Business Administration and Economics, FernUniversitat in Hagen, 58084 Hagen, Germany

Interfaces, 2023, vol. 53, issue 4, 307-311

Abstract: Universities follow a long tradition of assigning students to courses based on student preferences while taking into account constraints such as the rooms to be used. In this context, theoretical approaches aid us in developing algorithms that can be helpful in practice. Our contribution to this subject is a practice summary in which we discuss the most important findings of a project to develop a MATLAB-based stand-alone software system to solve the seminar assignment problem at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. The use of our software at three departments has already enabled annual savings of nearly 20,000 euros in personnel costs, which corresponds to a reduction of around 500 person-hours per year. Apart from important technical aspects of our work, the reported savings potential provides valuable information for making decisions on future similar software projects.

Keywords: seminar assignment; MATLAB-based decision support; multicriteria decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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