Modelling Choice Selection System of a Public Sector General University in Pakistan

Abstract

Choice selection in large public sector universities has always remained a critical matter when it comes to distributing the seats against the designated categories of the prospective students. In these universities, thousands of prospective students compete for a limited number of seats allocated for specific undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We design a model for the choice selection system to represent both its structure and behavior. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is twofold: i) to model the structure of the choice selection system using the object modeling technique, and ii) to design a suitable algorithm to generate the merit list. Nowadays, object-oriented languages dominate the programming paradigm; therefore, we use UML class diagram notations to represent the structural model (i.e., class diagram). In this way, the underlying model of the system resembles the real situations that are exploited while the algorithm generates the selection list.