A Decision Support System for Portuguese Higher Education Course Selection – First Round

João Pedro Silva, Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos

2013

Abstract

Application for higher education courses is a delicate and important process. In this phase students face a great number of possibilities of choice. In order to help students in the decision making process a decision support system called C.U.R.S.O was developed. Based on a structured questionnaire the system determines de profile making use of a knowledge base and proposes a ranked list of the most suitable courses. Input variables take into account not only social and economic aspects but also the aptitude for a particular area. The first version of C.U.R.S.O was tested by hundreds of Portuguese students and schools. This paper presents and discusses the results attained during the first round.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pedro Silva J., Portela F. and Filipe Santos M. (2013). A Decision Support System for Portuguese Higher Education Course Selection – First Round . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-75-4, pages 360-367. DOI: 10.5220/0004545503600367

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis13,
author={João Pedro Silva and Filipe Portela and Manuel Filipe Santos},
title={A Decision Support System for Portuguese Higher Education Course Selection – First Round},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={360-367},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004545503600367},
isbn={978-989-8565-75-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)
TI - A Decision Support System for Portuguese Higher Education Course Selection – First Round
SN - 978-989-8565-75-4
AU - Pedro Silva J.
AU - Portela F.
AU - Filipe Santos M.
PY - 2013
SP - 360
EP - 367
DO - 10.5220/0004545503600367