Decision Support Concept to Management of Student Project Proposals


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Abstract


Due to everyday burst of new knowledge, technological developments and their application, there is a lasting need for adequate management. One of management problems is to find the best project among several others i.e. to make a prioritization which is consistent and a solution is based on compromise. Prioritization of project proposals deals with complex decision making and is characterized by lots of participants, multidisciplinarity, huge quantities of information, conflicting goals and criteria. In order to cope with such complexity, decision support concept to management of student projects is proposed. The starting point of proposed concept is goal analysis and development of adequate criteria set. Evaluation of criteria importance is based on a set of experts’ opinions processed by AHP method, while all data processing is done by PROMETHEE multi-criteria methods resulting with projects rank-list. This concept contributes to higher quality and more consistent decision-making in prioritization of student projects.
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Decision Support; Multi-Criteria Methods; Project Management; Prioritization

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