Electronic Exercises for the Metra Potential Method

Markus Siepermann, Christoph Siepermann, Richard Lackes

2013

Abstract

The metra potential method as a special precedence diagram method is used in many scientific disciplines, e.g. in project management, date- and capacity-planning. It is a combination of graphical modelling and calculations for the duration of projects/processes. In this paper, we introduce an e-learning system that provides exercises concerning the metra potential method. Students can freely model the diagrams without restrictions and do the necessary calculations. Then, their solutions are marked automatically on the basis of a reference solution. The calculations are based on the modelling, thus consecutive faults between modelling and calculation have to be considered as well as consecutive faults only during the calculation.

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Siepermann M., Siepermann C. and Lackes R. (2013). Electronic Exercises for the Metra Potential Method . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-60-0, pages 435-442. DOI: 10.5220/0004421504350442


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Markus Siepermann and Christoph Siepermann and Richard Lackes},
title={Electronic Exercises for the Metra Potential Method},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={435-442},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004421504350442},
isbn={978-989-8565-60-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Electronic Exercises for the Metra Potential Method
SN - 978-989-8565-60-0
AU - Siepermann M.
AU - Siepermann C.
AU - Lackes R.
PY - 2013
SP - 435
EP - 442
DO - 10.5220/0004421504350442