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Towards a digital service to help the elaboration, implementation and follow-up of study regulations at the University of Geneva - a hands-on experiment

Authors :
Di Marzo Serugendo Giovanna
Friha Lamia
Burgi Pierre-Yves
Döbeli Julien
Wade Assane
Cappelli Maria Assunta
Cutting-Decelle Anne-Françoise
Vonlanthen Mathieu
Durand Natacha
Hugentobler Alain
Source :
ITM Web of Conferences, Vol 41, p 03004 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, 2022.

Abstract

Writing study regulations for academic study programs and automatically implementing those regulations is a difficult task that involves a variety of actors and requires at each step careful compliance to the constraints defined in the regulations. This paper describes: (1) the innovation process, taking place through a hands-on experiment, that lead the R&D Unit of the University of Geneva to provide a proposal for a digital service targeting the above purpose; (2) the actual design of such a digital service, providing various functionalities: (a) the elaboration of study regulations; (b) the elaboration of the corresponding study plan; (c) the actual implementation of the study plan through the information system. The digital service relies on two main ideas: (1) all study regulations and study plans are built from common atomic elements, that we call building blocks; (2) ensuring compliance to various constraints is achieved through a reasoning engine capturing the constraints defined over an ontology of the study regulations domain. Each year, for a given University, several study regulations, with various constraints and structure are defined or updated. They all need to be carefully crafted and implemented. The work presented in this paper has the potential to alleviate and improve this task for the various actors involved (students, program directors, lawyers, scientific committee members, study advisor, information systems managers, students’ office).

Subjects

Subjects :
Information technology
T58.5-58.64

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
22712097
Volume :
41
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
ITM Web of Conferences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.135bf90a49f9452b96d3d1dac369f327
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20224103004