Designing e-Coordinator for improved teams collaboration in graduation projects

• Published in: Computers in human behavior 2015-10, Vol.51, p.640-644
• Main Author: Al-Hudhud, Ghada
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Engineering coordination system; Grading system for groups and producing final assessment sheet; Group assignments to supervisors; Multi-agent approach
• ISSN: 0747-5632; 1873-7692
• DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.022

•Describe design requirement to reengineer collaborative project coordination system.•Identify collaboration requirements for group projects.•Declare the agents roles and responsibilities for collaboration activities.•Propose agent-based Team coordination tools in eCoordinator for collaborative activities. The work presented in this paper describes the design for Graduation Project eCoordination System in our department. The proposed eCoordinator provides effective team–team, supervisor–team and coordinator–supervisors–teams collaboration. eCoordinator is an attribute based framework that serves evolving an object oriented software system into agent oriented software system. Nowadays, agent-oriented software development technologies have evolved rapidly; it is emerging as a new paradigm for constructing intelligent more autonomous software systems. Therefore, several methodologies are available and it is difficult to determine the most appropriate methodology for specific project within different domains. This is especially occurs when re-engineering current object oriented software system. The case study is going to be rebuilding a virtual graduation project coordinator in Information Technology Department at King Saud University.