Student academic advising is an educational decision support process required nowadays to be automated for both the student and advisor to speed up the planning process of course registration by finding out the optimal sequencing or prioritization of students degree requirements to enroll in for next semesters based on their academic standing in a way that suits students’ interests and meets overall graduation requirements within a time frame. This thesis integrated all the rules and constraints from all precedent references relevant to this subject that impacts the scheduling process and proposed ...

The classic way for communication between database and applications is performed using ODBC (for standard applications) and DLL files (for distributed applications). The job of theses API's is to connect to database for sending and retrieving information. We introduce the WDBC pattern that is designed to do the same tasks but in addition, it guarantees the safety of data (by doing backup of database over the network) and can be integrated in an application that is created with different programming languages and running on different operating systems.