Constraints based equipment scheduling for innovation talent cultivation in Chinese it undergraduate education

Abstract

Innovation talent is very important when working for information technology. Innovation talent cultivation is regarded as the first priority program during the Information Technology (IT) undergraduate education in Chinese universities. However, such program couldn't cover all the undergraduates all the time due to the insufficient equipment, instructors and investment. This study clarified the instructors, undergraduates, equipment and talent cultivation program with E-CARGO collaborative model and proposed an equipment scheduling algorithm based on the constraints. Algorithms are presented to identify the lack of equipment and optimize the equipment on demand. The results from the practice show that the suggested approach is objective and efficient. © 2012 Asian Network for Scientific Information.