Regensburg 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
SOE 14: Social Systems, Opinion and Group Dynamics III
SOE 14.5: Vortrag
Mittwoch, 24. März 2010, 15:00–15:15, H44
Optimization of the distribution of students to universities in Germany — •Christian Hirtreiter1 and Johannes J. Schneider2 — 1Faculty of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany — 2Center for Computational Research Methods in Natural Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
For some subjects to study, the number of students being allowed to study this subject is restricted, due to finite capacities of universities. While formerly a central agency called ZVS was solely responsible for the distribution of students applying for a place to study at one of their desired universities, nowadays, a decentralized approach is used in which students apply directly at universities for a place to study. Both approaches fail partially: the ZVS often sent students to universities at which they did not want to study in the first place. The current method leads to a large administration overhead, students not being able to take up their studies in time, and on the other hand free places still available when the semester starts.
Based on multi agent system simulations, we present various approaches of how to distribute students, e.g., by allowing elite universities to perform a preselection. We will show that an optimized centralized approach leads to the best results, decreasing the factor of frustrated students by a factor of 2, if compared to the old ZVS approach.