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We have designed and implemented a system for the management of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in our department. The system is based on Constraint Processing techniques and is operated through web-based interfaces. The task is to assign GTAs, based on their qualifications, availability, and preferences, to academic tasks over a semester such as grading, supervising labs and recitations, and teaching introductory classes. Typically, every semester, the department has about 70 different academic tasks and can hire between 25 and 40 GTAs. The problem is often tight and sometimes over-constrained. In the past, this task has been performed manually by members of the staff and faculty. Tentative schedules were iteratively refined based on feedback from faculty and the GTAs themselves, in a tedious and error-prone process lingering over 3 weeks. We have built web-based interfaces to streamline the collection of data and specification of constraints.
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Lim, R., Guddeti, V.P., Choueiry, B.Y. (2004). A Constraint-Based System for Hiring and Managing Graduate Teaching Assistants. In: Wallace, M. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2004. CP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30201-8_95
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