Design a Decision Support System to Evaluate the Performance of Indonesian Lecturers by Developing a Simple Additive Weighting Method

Abstract

Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method is one of the methods in the Decision supporting system (DSS) to discover the best option from some option with certain criteria. The determination of option by determining grade on the data group which as the result of weight multiple with an interests value. The determination of the weight will be tough when using more than two grade criteria because the weight should be calculated repeatedly until the sub-criteria at the last grade.

The research is aim to develop the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) in order to simplify the weight calculation.  SAW method able to calculate the sub-criteria until more than four grade, so that determination of the key performance indicator and multi-criteria could be done unlimited. The case study in this research is about a lecturer performance assessment in Indonesia. The assessment will be referred to the three pillars of the higher education activities, which consisted an education and teaching, research and the society service. Base on that reason, the determining of the key performance indicators is referred to the translation of the three pillars. Therefore, necessary simplification of the weight calculation so that make it easier to calculate the value of the preveriensi for each alternative.