Project Title: Automated Assignment of Modules to Lecturers
Student: Sarah Kassab
Course: MSc Information Technology

Abstract:
This Dissertation involves modelling the manual process of assigning 
modules to lecturers as an optimization problem, and presents a software 
tool which implements this model in order to automate the process of 
module-lecturer assignment. This is preserved to be helpful as there 
will be no need to do this process manually which can take a lot of 
time and efforts especially when there are a lot of modules and lecturers 
to match. This type of problem is known specifically as the Assignment 
Problem which is one of the most studied Combinatorial Optimization 
problems. Optimization solutions often promise finding best solutions 
in very efficient ways while addressing the problem?s conditions and main 
goal. Therefore, the approaches followed in this project are mainly 
related to studying some of the related optimization problems and their 
correspondent solutions. Subsequently, a new algorithmic solution is 
proposed in this dissertation document inspired by the knowledge gained 
when studying related optimization problems. Moreover, some software 
development techniques are applied and explained in this document to 
help implement the solution found and produce a good quality software 
tool used for the purpose of assigning modules to lecturers. The 
integration of an optimization based solution within a software 
application makes it much easier to solve the problem efficiently 
while eliminating all the difficulties encountered when solved manually.