| Abstract: |
Academic advising is a knowledge-intensive process of
assessing a student's interests and determining the best course
progression that satisfies graduation requirements. An advisor may have
to have detailed knowledge of curriculum and student aptitudes as well
as course offerings and time constraints. This report introduces AACORN,
a course recommendation system that uses the course histories as the
basis for course advising. By reusing the experience embodied in
historical student's transcripts, AACORN can make reasonable suggestions
with only a limited amount of domain knowledge. The system uses the edit
distance between two course histories, as well as other heuristics to
determine the similarity between course histories. |