Project Title: A Decision Support System for Office Space Allocation
Student: Jose Arturo Castillo Salazar
Course: MSc Management of IT
	
Abstract:
This dissertation is about investigating which techniques have been 
used to tackle the office space allocation problem. In order to do that, 
a brief description of currently used methods is provided. Also this 
dissertation gathers a set of functional and non-functional requirements 
to develop a decision support system for the problem. Some of the 
requirements were previously identified in the literature, but new ones 
are added, such as time-occupancy requirement, as a result of the work 
performed in the dissertation. This dissertation also provides an overview 
of the software systems available in the market to address the managing 
of space. With the information provided by the companies' websites and 
products specifications it can be stayed that none of them offer an 
automatic process based in metaheuristics. Therefore, the need to develop 
a system was still waiting. Finally, with all the requirements gathered 
an iterative software development process is performed to design and 
implement a first prototype model-driven decision support system for 
office space allocation.