A Thesis Oral Defense Scheduling Model and Its Application
FANG Gang
XU Zhe
GU Kun
Abstract：Thesis oral defense scheduling is an important part of educational administration in colleges and universities. It has a direct influence on the fairness of review. Factors including characteristics and situa-tions of oral defense scheduling, differences between reviewers who are in different research fields, time request of different reviewers, existing relationships between reviewers and respondents, the workload limit of reviewers who are assessing respondents′ thesis and the constraints that limit the number of reviewers and respondents of different groups have been considered. A two phase nonlinear integer programming model which includes group stage and reviewers′ assignment stage is built. Then a complexity analysis is executed which confirms that thesis oral defense scheduling problem is a NP-hard problem. The rationality and validity of the model are proved with an example using lingo mathematics software. It can be confirmed by the experiment that the model is helpful in improving the work efficiency of administrative staff and quality of defense management work.
Keywords：educational administration managementoral defense scheduling problempersonnel roste-ringnonlinear programminginteger programming
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 123-130 )