DSS for academic workload management

International Journal of Management in Education

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-187

  Zilli, Dejan ^a   Trunk Širca, Nada ^b  

^a Nova Vizija   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

academic information system; academic workload management; AIS; data warehouse; decision support system; DSS; management in education; workload planning system; WPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857309542     PISSN: 1750385X     EISSN: 17503868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2009.025274     Document Type: Article

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