Abstract
Current event scheduling systems are often inefficient. Traditional business practices, such as employing office assistance to manually record event times requires the customer to languish needlessly on the telephone while waiting receive assistance and to repeat that process several times to establish just one appointment or a meeting. New software scheduling tools significantly reduces errors, yet they are still modeled after traditional processes. We have proposed to model scheduling as a “protocol” and use a visualization approach to depict the process. Using this protocol approach, the project includes analysis of the traditional scheduling processes. We have identified the inefficiencies that occur and have proposed a new protocol that utilizes the software tools to make scheduling faster and less arduous. We have also demonstrated this scheduling procedure through a software prototype that we developed. This protocol is flexible and minimizes the number of transactions between participates.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Saeed Rajput
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-4-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
4-4-2014 5:30 PM
Next Generation Event Scheduling System
Alvin Sherman Library
Current event scheduling systems are often inefficient. Traditional business practices, such as employing office assistance to manually record event times requires the customer to languish needlessly on the telephone while waiting receive assistance and to repeat that process several times to establish just one appointment or a meeting. New software scheduling tools significantly reduces errors, yet they are still modeled after traditional processes. We have proposed to model scheduling as a “protocol” and use a visualization approach to depict the process. Using this protocol approach, the project includes analysis of the traditional scheduling processes. We have identified the inefficiencies that occur and have proposed a new protocol that utilizes the software tools to make scheduling faster and less arduous. We have also demonstrated this scheduling procedure through a software prototype that we developed. This protocol is flexible and minimizes the number of transactions between participates.
