| Author | Qaiser, Khayyam |
| Call Number | AIT SSPR no. CA- 82-1 |
| Subject(s) | Interactive computer systems
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| Note | A special study submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The reservation system is designed to provide equal
opportunity for more than 500 students, roughly 400 staff and the regular visitors to be able to share the RCC computational
facilities on a first-come first-served basis through out the
daily working hours. In addition to the booking, checking and
quarry facilities the following features are included in the
design of this system:
- - Terminal types such as scripting, nonscripting and APL/MVS.
--Booking types and duration such as 2 hours or one hour current day or one day advance by the ordinary user and upto one week advance booking of one or more terminals by the privilaged user.
--Specification of daily working hours and list of available
terminals.
--Default booking for current user in case the authorized user
fails to logon within 5 minutes on the hour.
--Auto logoff of unauthorized user after due warning.
--Maintaining a complete running directory of booked and free terminals.
The system is developed in two parts in order to maintain
security of data files and is implemented as a feature of the
operating system. The user interface part 'BOOK' is active
throughout the working hours. It accepts a reservation request
and after validating adds it to one of two queues; the low
priority user queue or the high priority privilaged user queue.
The second part 'BOOKER' works independently from the 'BOOK' part. It is activated every few (four) seconds to scan the two queues and remains active until all the requests are served.
This is done to minimize additional operating load on the system while maintaining an acceptable response time. The system was tested for two months and user feedback was considered before
implementation.
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| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Special Study Project Report (SSPR) |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Application (CA) |
| Chairperson(s) | Malik, Ghulam M.
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| Examination Committee(s) | Kanchit Malaivongs ; Kearns, James A. ; Johnson, Gerald D.
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| Degree | Special Studies Project Report (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1982 |