Petri Net Based Modelling of a Career Syllabus
Keywords:
Decision support systems, system modelling, system verification, educational planning, Petri netsAbstract
A syllabus is a set of courses, their prerequisites and a set of rules defining
the continuance of a student in an academic program. The manual verification of the
possible contradictions between prerequisites and the set of rules is a difficult task
due to the large number of possible cases. In this article we present the different
stages in the verification of a syllabus, its modelling and analysis using Petri nets,
and suggested ways in which this may be used by the university administration in the
decision making process.
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