Applying Simple Additive Weighting to Determine the Location for Internship Program
Muhammad Indra Nurardy Saputra (a), Mohamad Irfan (a), Wildan Budiawan Zulfikar (a), Dede Endang (a)

(a) Informatic Engineering, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Abstract

Internship program is a must for every informatics engineering student of State Islamic University of Sunan Gunung Djati. In selection of internship places often does not match with the ability of the students. So, they cant use their ability optimally. It is caused by several factors such as incompatibility of institutions or companies with desired criteria of the majority of departments for the students to perform internship and the assessment process of students internship placements based on subjectivity. By utilizing advances of information technology which is now growing up quickly, building a decision support system application can help the department of informatics engineering in determining the criteria of the institution that will be used for students carrying out the internship. Decision Support System for internship place recommendations using the Simple Additive Weighting method by finding the weighted sum of each alternative on all attributes. It is expected that the system can assist the department in determining the criteria and what institutions are suitable to be used as internship locations. The results of matching criteria with institution data is a values rank, the higher the value gets, the better the places used as recommendation for students carrying out the internship.

Keywords: Decision Support System; Simple Additive Weighting; location; intership

Topic: Information Engineering