Decision Support System For Determination Of Bank Indonesia Scholarship Recipients Using Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution and Simple Additive Weighting

Abstract

Scholarships are a form of award given to individuals in order to continue their education to a higher level. The award can be in the form of certain access to an agency or an award in the form of financial assistance. One of the scholarships available at the Malikussaleh University Information Systems Study Program is the Bank Indonesia Scholarship, in the process of selecting students who are eligible for scholarships it is still done manually and takes a very long time, while the staff at the Malikussaleh University Information Systems Study Program are too busy and have a solid agenda so it is necessary a decision support system for determining scholarships to facilitate performance and will shorten time. other decisions. In this method, decision making is based on the value of the decision maker's desire and based on actual conditions. This SAW method requires the decision maker to determine the weight for each attribute value. The final value for the alternative is obtained by adding up all the multiplication results between the rating (which can be compared with other attributes) and the weight of each attribute. In this method, the selection of scholarships is based on a pre-existing weight value. the results of the TOPSIS method and the SAW method in the application process used 20 alternatives and the results obtained were 6 choices of the same alternative and 14 different alternatives. It is hoped that the results of this research can be very helpful in determining the criteria that are eligible for scholarships at the Malikussaleh University Information Systems Study Program later