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Designing An Integrated Environment For Artificial Intelligence, Andrew B. Ritger '99 Apr 1999

Designing An Integrated Environment For Artificial Intelligence, Andrew B. Ritger '99

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The SHELLEY RESEARCH GROUP (part of the Illinois Wesleyan Intelligence Network on Knowledge -IWINK) has been in existence for several years, and has benefited immensely from various student contributors who have added such components as robotic arm control, cross platform networking, an artificially intelligent tic-tac-toe player, and an interactive teaching tool demonstrating the functionality of artificial neural networks. What is lacking, however, amidst these undergraduate contributions to the SHELLEY Project, is an effective means of integrating existing components into a single cohesive functional unit, let alone any easy means of making further contributions within a simple unified context. The focus …


Powerfaids: Building A Road To Financial Aid Efficiency, Lauri Nichols '96 Apr 1996

Powerfaids: Building A Road To Financial Aid Efficiency, Lauri Nichols '96

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To most students, the Financial Aid office is a small room in the basement of Holmes Hall where they are occasionally sent to sign over a paper or two. It has something to do with money, and every so often, these students get something in the mail that tells them just how much it's going to cost them to continue their education here at Illinois Wesleyan. They know that papers are filled out, usually by their parents, and then in a couple of months, a figure jumps out of nowhere and becomes "Your Financial Aid Package."


Improved Data Migration And Processing For Projecting The Financial Aid Budget, Jeffery L. Olson '96 Jan 1996

Improved Data Migration And Processing For Projecting The Financial Aid Budget, Jeffery L. Olson '96

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Last fall, I again resumed work on the budget projection model that encompassed five spreadsheets. Four of these sheets generated a set of statistical averages for each class. Each one consisted of 101 columns containing data for the four-to five-hundred students(rows) in each class. In addition, a fifth sheet used these averages to generate a highly accurate prediction for expenditures in the upcoming year. However, there were two main areas of improvement that became readily apparent: importing data and the sheets themselves.


Quickadvise - The Search For A More Efficient Method Of Advising, Gregory G. Pengiel '94 May 1994

Quickadvise - The Search For A More Efficient Method Of Advising, Gregory G. Pengiel '94

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In order to choose courses both efficiently and properly, a student and advisor must look at which courses have been taken, and also which ones are necessary. They must then determine whether or not the student is qualified to take the necessary courses. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to record and maintain this work so that it may be used throughout the college career.
Hence, even though the student and advisor recently determined which classes were headed, they must once again look up all relevant information and determine which courses are best. This is exactly the type of problem …


Course Scheduling Software: Reference Manual, Saadatu Gobir May 1994

Course Scheduling Software: Reference Manual, Saadatu Gobir

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Welcome to version 1.0 of the Course Scheduling software. Course Scheduling is designed to meet needs of anyone who is tying to create a course schedule. This software is a product that compiles, links, and runs in C++; although it has C extension. It has been specifically designed to work In C++ exclusively. I had mixed a little of C++ functions with C structure programming to complete this package and make it more efficient. It is versatile, quick, and efficient. This instruction manual is brief, due to fact that the software is well documented. It only covers the basic functions …


Financial Aid Budget Projection Methodology, Amy N. Baird '94 Jan 1994

Financial Aid Budget Projection Methodology, Amy N. Baird '94

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The nature of this research project is to make a very strong contribution toward the final goal of completely automating the Financial Aid Office at Illinois Wesleyan University over the next five years.


The State Of Computer Science Facilities Of Schools Across The United States That Are Comparable To Illinois Wesleyan University, Sarah A. Bartz '93 May 1993

The State Of Computer Science Facilities Of Schools Across The United States That Are Comparable To Illinois Wesleyan University, Sarah A. Bartz '93

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The purpose of this study is to compare Illinois Wesleyan's academic computer facilities with those at other comparable U.S. colleges and universities. This study also investigates factors affecting these facilities such as the methods other institutions use to deal with and plan for the constantly changing computer world. To obtain this information a survey was mailed to over 250 institutions across the U.S. that were considered comparable to IWU. These institutions include the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the Oberlin Group, and some of the top colleges and universities in the U.S. as ranked in U.S. News and World Report's …


Computer Program: General University Requirements Package, Abhishek Kejriwal '93 Jan 1993

Computer Program: General University Requirements Package, Abhishek Kejriwal '93

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The objective of my research project was to write a computer program in Turbo Pascal which would determine how many general university requirements a student has completed and what requirements he or she needs to complete in order to graduate. There are six degrees offered at Illinois Wesleyan University. They are: BA (Bachelor of Arts); BS (Bachelor of Science); BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts); BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing); BM (Bachelor of Music) and BME (Bachelor of Music Education). There is a different set of criteria to be met for the completion of each of these degrees. The program …


Cystic Fibrosis: Cluster Analysis Of Microbiology And Pulmonary Function, Lori Lee M. Larson '91 May 1991

Cystic Fibrosis: Cluster Analysis Of Microbiology And Pulmonary Function, Lori Lee M. Larson '91

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In an attempt to find a relationship between pulmonary infection and pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, microbiology data and pulmonary function test (PFT) data for clinic patients' visits were obtained from the University of Minnesota Relational Database. The two files were merged, totaling 12,193 cases, and then analyzed using a quick cluster subroutine of SPSSX on the University of Illinois IBM Mainframe System. QUICK CLUSTER analysis showed a relationship between the virulence of the microorganisms, the amount of growth of the microorganisms, and the pulmonary function test scores of CF patients