Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Semantic Web Scenario: Designing University Timetable

In this scenario a manager academics agent (MAA) will design a university timetable by taking into account the university’s faculty schedule and free room slots. The MAA will access faculty member’s agent (FMA) one by one and try to find their free time slot from their daily schedule. After retrieving the required information, MAA will save this information in a database specially build for this purpose.
Now, from the database MAA starts retrieving the information and began trying to find a match between available time slots in instructor’s schedule and free room slot. Free rooms are assigned to instructors according to the same floor of the campus where their offices are present. In this regard, it checks from the instructor’s website the course which he is instructing and the floor where his room is present. After matching, it saves this information in an MS Excel sheet.
(The emphasized keywords indicate terms whose semantics, or meaning, were defined for the agent through the Semantic Web.)

Resources needed to be Available:
• Instructor’s daily schedule stored in his agent
• A Database and its location
• Instructor’s Website
• MS Excel Sheet and its location

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