ECAI 2004 Conference Paper

An Interactive System for Hiring and Managing Graduate Teaching Assistants

Ryan Lim, Venkata Praveen Guddeti, Berthe Y. Choueiry

In this paper, we describe a prototype system for managing hiring and assigning Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) to academic tasks based on their qualifications, preferences, and availability. This system is built using Constraint Processing techniques and is operated through web-based interfaces. The system has yielded a significant improvement of the quality and stability of the final assignments and a reduction of the workload and frustration of the administrators involved in this task. This paper describes the motivation and practical significance of this system, the design and functionalities of its components, and the teaching and research opportunities it enabled.

Keywords: constraint satisfaction, search, resource allocation, constraint processing, interactive system, web-based system, intelligent user interfaces

Citation: Ryan Lim, Venkata Praveen Guddeti, Berthe Y. Choueiry: An Interactive System for Hiring and Managing Graduate Teaching Assistants. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.730-734.

ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València on behalf of Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligència Artificial (ACIA).