The development of Decision Support System for Considering Internal Research Budget Contribution of University by Analytical Hierarchy Process via Web Technology
Abstract:
This research aims 1) to study the decision criteria for considering the internal research budget of the university, 2) to develop the decision support system for considering the university's internal research using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) via web technology, and 3) to assess the decision support system for considering the internal research of university using by AHP via web technology. The research operation is divided into 3 steps 1) gathering data with the directors of research and development institutions of 3 government and private universities by purposive sampling includes Uttaradit Rachabhat university, Rajamangala university of technology Lanna, Pitsanulok, and Phitsanulok university for creating the decision criteria to consider the internal research budget of university 2) developing AHP model and web technology for connecting the AHP model by PyAHP Library in Python, PHP, and MySQL database management system and 3) assessing system performance in the decision for ranking to select a research project and users' satisfaction to decision support system. The research is found that the system has the performance in ranking the research project by 80% and users' satisfaction to the system at a high level.