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title : Implementing a conference scheduling system in Ruby on Rails
contactname: Giovanni Cangiani
contactmail_mail: giovanni.cangiani@epfl.ch
contacttel: 021 6937526
contactroom: BC 149
type : bachelor semester
state : unavailable
table : projects
created_dt : 2009-05-29
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This project is very practical. Its goal of this project is to design and implementat of an important feature of a web-based 
conference organization system that is being developed in our lab: a semi-automatic system 
for scheduling the talks and the sessions of a conference starting from the list of accepted papers.

The taker of the project will have to deal with the following tasks
  * review of existing implementations
  * design of the object model
  * design of an easy-to-use and elegant user interface
  * implementation of the computer program
  * (optional) research and implementation of an automatic methods for scheduling the talks

The taker of the project will have the opportunity to learn and/or improve his knowledge about
  * the Ruby language
  * the [[http://rubyonrails.org/|Ruby on Rails]] web development framework
  * test-driven development
  * user interface design
  * scheduling and resource allocation algorithms
  * [[http://git-scm.com/|git]] distributed control version system