9/18/2009 This material has been prepared only for the students enrolled in the course- Distributed Software Development (DSD) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mälardalen, Västerås, Sweden and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia (year 2009/2010). For all other purposes, author's written permission is needed! The purpose of this material is to help students in better understanding of lectures in DSD and not their replacement! NOTICE!

9/18/2009 Distributed Software Development

9/18/2009 Project Vision The CourseScheduler team presents

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Egle Samuleviciute Project role: Project leader

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Inderjeet Oberoi Project role: Backend Developer

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Narendran Sivakumar Project role: Business Logic Developer

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Ligaj Pradhan Project role: SVN coordinator, Backend Developer

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Dario Vuljanić Project role: Team leader

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Zvonko Ivić Project role: Backend developer

9/18/2009 The CourseScheduler team Kristian Poslek Project role: Designer, frontend developer

What? A system for planning courses and their scheduling at Mälardalen University (MDU) Ability to enter the data about programs, courses and resources A solution for automated schedule according to given constraints

Why? To avoid overlapping of courses To make the process faster with minimum errors To make life easier for o the program directors o the department managers o the lecturers o the scheduler administrator o and the students

How? Manual Automated Excel Spreadsheets Web-based system

Goals Identify and document all processes involved in generating a schedule for an academic year Create a functional prototype of the course scheduler Nice and usable UI to access the scheduler and registration to the courses

High-level Architecture

Main goal