An Interactive Multimedia Software House Simulation for Postgraduate Software Engineers

Abstract: The Open University's M880 Software Engineering is a postgraduate distance education course aimed at software professionals. About half of the course is taken up with standard teaching materials, and about half involves case studies which complement the standard materials. The case study element of the course (approximately 80 hours of study) explores various aspects of software engineering and is presented through an innovative interactive multimedia simulation of a software house Open Software Solutions (OSS). The student `joins' OSS as an employee and performs various tasks as a member of the company's project teams. In this paper, we present the background to the development, describe the multimedia and its use by students, and present the results of two evaluation efforts to date. Editors: Patrick McAndrew (Open U., UK). Reviewers: Yunwen Ye (U. Colorado, USA) and Demetrios Sampson (U. of Piraeus, Greece)

2000 - 2001: Postgraduate Prospectus

This booklet outlines the opportunities for post graduate studies offered by the Dublin Institute of Technology. Including both taught and programmes of research leading to higher level awards

2001 : Postgraduate Prospectus

Book containing postgraduate prospectus with information on applications to postgraduate studies by resarch/fees, research funding, application to courses, course funding, international applicants, research centres, contacts for persons etc

StuA: An Intelligent Student Assistant

With advanced innovation in digital technology, demand for virtual assistants is arising which can assist a person and at the same time, minimize the need for interaction with the human. Acknowledging the requirement, we propose an interactive and intelligent student assistant, StuA, which can help new-comer in a college who are hesitant in interacting with the seniors as they fear of being ragged. StuA is capable of answering all types of queries of a new-comer related to academics, examinations, library, hostel and extra curriculum activities. The model is designed using CLIPS which allows inferring using forward chaining. Nevertheless, a generalized algorithm for backward chaining for CLIPS is also implemented. Validation of the proposed model is presented in five steps which show that the model is complete and consistent with 99.16% accuracy of the knowledge model. Moreover, the backward chaining algorithm is found to be 100% accurate