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=Jan Otto 277 2013-2014=

__Me as client__


 * ICT is perfectly integrated in: archiving dissertations (system covers all steps of this strict legal procedure), presentation of grading statistics (highly customized, providing anonymity of participants) and courses information. It is somewhat intergrated in: teachers evaluation surveys (diversity and specifity of classes makes almost impossible to ask standard questions, on the other hand customizing it would make surveys incomparable). It is poorly integrated in exams scheduling (being done every semester manually).


 * 1. Platform for student research grant application would enable me to keep needed papers (CV, scientific interests etc.) and apply in a standarized way. 2. Individual schedule builder would allow me to submit prioritized versions of my full schedule and register me for the one with the highest priority that would satisfy the global fit.

__Me as observer__


 * Ad 1. I could choose not the grant I would be attracted to for scientific reasons, but the grant for which my chances in competition would be maximized. Ad 2. I could compose such my version of schedule, which would choose my first priority for global fit (possibly at the expense of other students' prior versions).

__Me as server__


 * Ad 1. Same as above, but from point of view of supervisors. Supervisors could choose the applications of students, of whom chances of getting the grant more matching their interests is lowest. Ad 2. The algorithm could return no global fit (or for example the one that has minimal number of collisions).


 * Ad 1. I would permit access to the list of all grants only to the students - not to the supervisors. This way the supervisors would only see the student applications and couldn't match them to other grants - only to their own. This wouldn't affect much the process of software development. Ad 2. Building schedules could be performed in rounds. After every round algorithm could show the minimal number of colisions and let the managing user to make decision if to adjust resources (add teachers/classes) to the best fit or to launch new round in which all or only a chosen group of students would have to add more versions of their schedules. This would affect price a bit - algorithm would stay the same, application should be more interactive in sense of organizing new rounds and customization, but would affect speed a lot - number of rounds could be possibly huge.

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I very much like your unusual answer. You have interesting points of view. (P.S. I used to apply for EU projects, but it is such a big business and such big problems for the average "honest" applicant that I gave up. )