Designing an expert system to advise the IT students' Master's degree for course selection

Authors
Ameneh Khadivar 1
Homeyra Khatami 2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 Master of Information Technology Management, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
10.52547/irphe.1401.1.131
Abstract
In the university educational system, students, depending on their different conditions, need guidance to choose the best courses and the best curriculum during a semester. Lack of sufficient information about class hours, exam interactions, prerequisites for each course, variety of instructors and other conditions may lead to a wrong choice and confusion of students. In this research, an expert system is introduced that aims to guide a master student in Information Technology Management during course selection. This expert system, which is written in MATLAB software, by receiving the necessary information about the student's academic conditions and the courses passed and taking advantage of the expert's opinion, completes the database of IF-THEN Rules and allows the student to choose suitable courses. As a human expert, the system provides intellectual assistance. The proposed system was evaluated using Mamdani's fuzzy inference method and determining several design indicators, and then its accuracy was evaluated with experimental data, and the obtained results indicated that the system was desirable.
 

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  • Receive Date 06 March 2023
  • Publish Date 06 March 2023