Academic IS for higher education institutions: the design of speedy courses registration transaction function

Developing Academic IS (AIS) for HEIs is a highly complex task as many issues need to be resolved, such as how to provide course registration transaction function that provide speedy access for thousands of students. This paper discusses the function design to resolve the issue, which involves database physical, algorithm of data pre-processing for course eligibility computation and personalized user interface design. The design has been implemented in the AIS and used in Parahyangan Catholic University Indonesia successfully.