TY - GEN
T1 - Allocation of college students to business majors with the aid of a linear programming model
AU - El-Bouri, A. W.
AU - Al-Zaidi, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/2
Y1 - 2017/7/2
N2 - The problem of assigning business students to program majors in a Middle Eastern College is considered in this study. An important characteristic that usually appears in this problem is a high variation in the demand for different programs. The allocation method currently used by the College is evaluated, in terms of overall satisfaction of student program preferences, by comparison with optimal allocations obtained from a linear programming formulation. The evaluation demonstrates the current method to be effective in assigning high-GPA students to their first choice programs, yet mediocre in overall satisfaction of the student preferences. Consequently, a hybrid approach that combines the current method with a linear programming model is proposed and analyzed. The results show that the hybridized method provides a solution that successfully integrates the strengths of the LP solution with the currently used method.
AB - The problem of assigning business students to program majors in a Middle Eastern College is considered in this study. An important characteristic that usually appears in this problem is a high variation in the demand for different programs. The allocation method currently used by the College is evaluated, in terms of overall satisfaction of student program preferences, by comparison with optimal allocations obtained from a linear programming formulation. The evaluation demonstrates the current method to be effective in assigning high-GPA students to their first choice programs, yet mediocre in overall satisfaction of the student preferences. Consequently, a hybrid approach that combines the current method with a linear programming model is proposed and analyzed. The results show that the hybridized method provides a solution that successfully integrates the strengths of the LP solution with the currently used method.
KW - assignment problem
KW - decision analysis
KW - linear programming
KW - service level
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2017.8289948
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2017.8289948
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045243972
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 534
EP - 538
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2017
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2017
Y2 - 10 December 2017 through 13 December 2017
ER -