Draft Ranking Automated Processor
Welcome to DRAP: the Draft Ranking Automated Processor for the University of the Philippines Diliman - Department of Computer Science's yearly draft of research lab assignments. In a nutshell, this web application automates the mechanics of the draft.
How It Works
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Registration
All participating students register for the draft by providing their full name, email, student number, and lab rankings (ordered by preference) to the draft administrators.
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Regular Draft
For each round:
- Draft administrators notify (typically via email) the lab heads about all of the students that have chosen their respective research lab as the first choice in their rankings.
- Each lab selects a subset (i.e., possibly none, some, or all) of these first-choice students to accept them into the lab. After this point, the selected students are considered to be "drafted" and are thus no longer part of the next rounds.
- The next round of the regular draft begins when all of the labs have submitted their preferences. Then, the second-choice preferences of the remaining students are evaluated (and so on).
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Lottery Round
The lottery round begins when there are unassigned students remaining by the end of the regular draft.
- Before the lottery, draft administrators can negotiate with participating labs (with available slots) to accept some of the remaining students.
- After manual intervention, any remaining students are shuffled and assigned to participating labs in a round-robin fashion.
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Conclusion
The draft concludes when all registered participants have been assigned to a lab.
Getting Started
All interactions with the application require UP Mail authentication. The next steps depend on your role in the draft.
- Go to your profile and set your student number. Note that this can only be done once.
- Set your lab rankings and preferences.
- Track the progress of the draft in the history page.
- Wait until the draft is finished.
- Wait for the administrators to open a draft.
- Track the progress of the draft in the history page.
- Visit the students page to select draftees who chose your lab.
- Wait until the regular draft process to finish.
- During the lottery stage, negotiate with the draft administrators to resolve the membership of any remaining draftees.
- Finally, after the manual interventions, wait for the results of the randomized round-robin lottery (if there are any undrafted students).
- Maintain the lab catalog.
- Initialize a new draft.
- Wait for participating draftees to register their lab preferences.
- Officially start the draft. This will notify all of the concerned lab heads of the interested draftees.
- Audit the progress of the draft in the history page.
- Wait for all rounds of the draft to finish.
- After the regular draft process, resolve the membership of the remaining undrafted students by negotiating with the lab heads.
- Apply the necessary manual interventions (i.e., assigning students to their labs based on the agreed terms between labs)
- Conclude the draft to proceed to the randomized round-robin stage.
Acknowledgements
The DRAP project, licensed under the free and open-source GNU Affero General Public License v3, was originally developed as a service project under the UP Center for Student Innovations. The DRAP logo and banner were originally designed and created by Angelica Julianne A. Raborar.
