E-Appointment Scheduling (EAS) of UMP

NOWADAYS, Information Communication Technology
(ICT) impacts the human life. In realistic world, the need
for the system arises as a result of problem faced by users in
the current manual. ICT has started changing the modern way
of life, e. g., an online appointments system is helping to
reduce National Health Services (NHS) waiting times. A
hospital referral from a Government Policy (GP) is usually
followed by a long wait, but under new government
regulations this could become a thing of the past as part of the
NHS Plan, all NHS trusts must have an online booking system
in place by 2005 . Although automated messages have been
shown to improve appointment attendance, these studies have
not focused on the messages themselves. Improving the
design of appointment messages may further increase the
potential of automated systems for improving appointment
adherence .
  
E-Appointment Scheduling (EAS) has been developed to
handle appointment for UMP students, lecturers in Faculty of
Computer Systems & Software Engineering (FCSSE) and
Student Medical Center. It is an online application for
FCSSE’s student whenever applying to make appointment
with lecturers or doctor. All applications have to be sent to the
lecturers or doctor for approval. This system will give more
interactive for student to make an appointment through an
online system. By deploying this system, we can avoid

Noraziah Ahmad is with the Faculty of Computer Systems & Software
Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300
Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia (phone: 609-5492121; fax: 609-
5492144; e-mail: noraziah@ump.edu.my).
Roslina Mohd Sidek is with the Faculty of Computer Systems & Software
Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300
Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia (e-mail: roslinams@ump.edu.my).
Mohd Affendy Omardin is with the Civil Engineering & Earth Resources,
University Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang,
Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia (e-mail: affedy@ump.edu.my).
wasting time and cost because this application will set an
appointment by auto-generated.  Therefore, this system is
hopefully to solve problem for scheduling. E-Appointment
Scheduling performs the related task associated with students
or lecturers and doctor such as:    
a- Student needs to see lecturers or doctor first before
make the appointment.
b- Student needs to fill the form before meet with the
doctor.
c- Consume more time to key in data into current system.
d- Increase error while entering data into current system.
e- The scheduling not effective for doctor and lecturers.
The system has been developed by using PHP tool in
Microsoft Windows OS. There are lot of advantages of using
PHP includes easy learning curve, database integration,
extensibility, object oriented programming, scalability and
rich features. It has been compiled with functions to interact
with MySQL database system. The system is debugged in the
local host server using Apache Server as the platform.

II.  RELATED WORK
A.  UMP Appointment
The current appointment in UMP is used by students,
lecturers and doctor to carry out appointment. In this report
explain the important of appointment at UMP meeting and
how the system organizes the appointment. This system
developed for e-meeting with C# and use for meeting
management [4].
B.  Concept of Scheduling
Scheduling is a problem that is grounded in many different
levels of computer science and computer hardware
engineering. Various scheduling and sequencing problems
have been addressed since the 1950's by researchers in
computer science, operations research and discrete
mathematics [5], [6]. In a business-computing context,
scheduling implies the automatic execution of background
tasks at pre-set points in time. Three types of scheduling
distinguished are native, basic and advanced scheduling [7].
C.  Constraint Logic Programming
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a merger of two
declarative paradigms: constraint solving and logic
programming [3], [8]. Although a relatively new field, CLP
has progressed in several quite different directions. In
particular, the early fundamental concepts have been adapted
to better serve in different areas of applications.
E-Appointment Scheduling (EAS)

By : Noraziah Ahmad, Roslina Mohd Sidek, and Mohd Affendy Omardin