Decision Support System on Selection of Lecturer Research Grant Proposals using Preferences Selection Index

Abstract

The Institute for Research and Community Service is a forum for lecturers at every university/institution to develop their knowledge according to their respective disciplines through research fields. This study aims to determine the recipient of the best research grant at STIKOM Tunas Bangsa Pematangsiantar. Research data comes from relevant agencies. There are 9 names of lecturers that are used as alternatives and 5 criteria as the assessment of grantees, namely type of problem formulation (C1), research output opportunities (C2), research method (C3), literature review (C4) and research feasibility (C5). This study uses the Preference selection index (PSI) method. In this method does not require relative determination of attributes, so the researcher does not need to determine the weight criteria. Based on the results of the study obtained several alternatives with the highest preference value, A8 (index selection value 0.8819), A9 (index selection value 0.8627), A4 (index selection value 0.8447), A3 (index selection value 0.83123) and A5 (Index selection value 0.8184) are entitled to get an internal research grant at STIKOM Tunas Bangsa. With this system, it can be used as a comparison between reviewer evaluators and the PSI system so as to maintain the quality of assessment in determining the recipients of internal research grants objectively. It is hoped that this research can provide recommendations to the Institute for Research and Community Services in determining internal lecturer research proposal grants so that the results obtained are more objective.