Decision Support System for Determining the Scholarship Recipients using Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)

Abstract

The scholarship is to help ease the cost burden someone less capable or accomplished during his education. In determining the grantee by universities both public and private certainly has criteria to determine who will be elected receive a scholarship. In the process of development of a decision support system to determine the scholarship recipients use traditional methods Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), where this method is able to select the best alternative from a number of alternatives, in this case the alternative meant that the right to receive scholarships based on criteria specified. Research done by finding the weight values for each attribute, then ranking process performed by the intensity of priority to produce a score value terbaik.Penelitian awardees will analyze the determination of the scholarship recipients based intelligent computing systems to help the working team selectors scholarship in performing the selection of scholarship, can accelerate scholarship selection process, can reduce errors in determining the scholarship recipients, and can facilitate team selectors in determining the recipients.