Improving Automatic Exams Using Generic UML Model for Better Analysis and Performance Evaluation

Muhammad Rashid Naeem^1, , Weihua Zhu¹, Adeel Akbar Memon¹ and Muhammad Tahir¹

¹School of Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Cite this paper:
Muhammad Rashid Naeem, Weihua Zhu, Adeel Akbar Memon and Muhammad Tahir. Improving Automatic Exams Using Generic UML Model for Better Analysis and Performance Evaluation. American Journal of Systems and Software. 2014; 2(2):50-55. doi: 10.12691/ajss-2-2-3

Abstract

In this paper we are proposing a generic visual model for automatic exam system. We use UML as modeling language to model this system. This model is totally generic and extendable according to the requirements of any type of institution which conducts automatic exams. Furthermore, this model also helps in improving automatic exam system by showing performance analysis of students and evaluation using WEKA data mining methods.

Keywords:
automatic exams UML performance analysis data mining visual modeling

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