On the development of a computer-assisted testing system with genetic test sheet-generating approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 590-594

  Hwang, Gwo Jen ^a   Lin, Bertrand M T ^b   Tseng, Hsien Hao ^c   Lin, Tsung Liang ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted testing; Genetic algorithm (GA); Mixed integer programming; Test sheet generating

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TESTING; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; TEST SHEET GENERATION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 27844487541     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2004.843184     Document Type: Article

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