1.1. Problem Statement

The general problems to be addressed by the Scheduler project are the following:

To provide an reliable and easy to use software to automatically schedule Computer Science courses, teachers, and students into a master schedule
To provide the ability to easily and visually make changes to automatically generated schedules.
To provide a visual environment to explicitly show the fairness in the automatic generation of the schedules.
To provide a secure server where schedules and databases are stored.
To provide the means to work on multiple schedules at any given time.
To provide the ability to archive past schedules, so they can be consulted as necessary.

The development of the Scheduler software is to meet the needs of a certain customer. Currently, certain functional requirements not employed in other commercial scheduling software must be met, such as the following:

Specifying any set of classes that should not overlap.

Matching courses with specific room requirements (specific equipment, accessibility access, etc)

Schedule faculty up to the maximum Work-Time-Units (WTU) specified by their contract.

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