A Decentralized and Autonomous Model to Administer University Examinations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03901v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:20:44 GMT
• Title: A Decentralized and Autonomous Model to Administer University Examinations
• Abstract summary: Administering standardized examinations is a challenging task. Colleges affiliated to universities demand academic and administrative autonomy. We describe a model for decentralized examination system to provide the necessary administrative support.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Administering standardized examinations is a challenging task, especially for those universities for which colleges affiliated to it are geographically distributed over a wide area. Some of the challenges include maintaining integrity and confidentiality of examination records, preventing mal-practices, issuing unique identification numbers to a large student population and managing assets required for the smooth conduct of examinations. These challenges aggravate when colleges affiliated to universities demand academic and administrative autonomy by demonstrating best practices consistently over a long period. In this chapter, we describe a model for decentralized and autonomous examination system to provide the necessary administrative support. The model is based on two emerging technologies of Blockchain Technology and Internet of Things (IoT). We adopt a software architecture approach to describe the model. The prescriptive architecture consists of {\em architectural mappings} which map functional and non-functional requirements to architectural elements of blockchain technology and IoT. In architectural mappings, first, we identify common use-cases in administering standardized examinations. Then we map these use-cases to the core elements of blockchain, i.e. distributed ledgers, cryptography, consensus protocols and smart-contracts and IoT. Such kind of prescriptive architecture guide downstream software engineering processes of implementation and testing

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