Design and Implementation of an Intelligent System for Seafarers’ “Cargo stowage and securing” Assessment

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10.2991/isci-15.2015.322How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Assessment; Intelligent System; Cargo stowage and securing

Abstract

Cargo operation is of great importance as far as the Chief Officer’s duties are concerned. “Cargo stowage and securing” is therefore one of the most important assessment courses for seafarers. The traditional assessment is however based on the subjective judgment by the assessors, which makes unfair treatment inevitably. Some seafarers even attempt to seek the unfair means in order to acquire high marks in the assessment. Such behaviors not only severely violate the fairness in light of assessment, but also eliminate the significance of evaluating the seafarers’ capabilities of cargo handling and the failure of which may cause vital incidents during sea passage. As a result, intelligent system of “cargo stowage and securing” assessment for seafarers is opt to be the first priority. This paper has studied the syllabus of “cargo stowage and securing”, whereupon framed a series of intelligent rules for the assessment and developed a set of intelligent assessment system based on B/S framework. The applicant is just required to answer the questions in the computer terminal and submit their answers once they have finished. This system will automatically provide the result and list down the losing marks where they failed if necessary. Applicants can make full use of this system for pre-exam practice and check the final result for the points where they fail. Thereby, the assessment result tends to be more convincing and reliable. This system has been successfully implemented for almost ten issue of assessment. The feedback from assessors appointed by MSA and students is quite optimistic. This system is deemed to be the pioneer in the field of assessment courses and classified as the first one within national domain by the experts from MSA.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qingwu Wang
AU  - Weifeng Li
AU  - Jian Zhao
PY  - 2015/01
DA  - 2015/01
TI  - Design and Implementation of an Intelligent System for Seafarers’ “Cargo stowage and securing” Assessment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Computers & Informatics
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2483
EP  - 2490
SN  - 2352-538X
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DO  - 10.2991/isci-15.2015.322
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