An Expert System Design for Suggesting Academic Course Selection to High School Students

Document Type : Persian Original Article

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1 Computer Department, University of Science and Arts of Yazd, Yazd, Iran

2 Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

The proposed fuzzy expert system helps high school students to choose their appropriate academic course in every time and place with low cost. The needed knowledge of the system is collected through interviews with several academic advisers (human experts) in Yazd province. These data are combined together in different ways. Distinct fuzzy expert systems are designed to identify the points of each academic course for students. These points are fed to another system called results modifier system in order to specify the priority of each field of study as the final system output. Real data, collected from schools in Yazd province, are preprocessed in Excel software and the fuzzy systems are implemented in MATLAB software. The experimental results show that the proposed system is 80% consistent with the opinion of the expert academic advisers and it can well replace the academic counselor and offer an appropriate course considering the student's circumstances.

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Journal of Soft Computing and Information Technology
Volume 8, Issue 1 - Serial Number 23
Spring
March 2019
Pages 24-30

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