MCDM: A Case Study for Selecting College for Admission

Applying Simple Additive Weighting for College Selection: A Case Study and Experimental Findings

Abstract

Humans systems make multiple decisions in everyday life. Often these decision consists of a lot of criteria in which some criteria are conflicting. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique was devised to tackle these types of problems i.e. decisions having conflicting criteria. In this paper, Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), one of the MCDM technique, is used to solve the problem which is faced by every students due to their extensive search of a desirable college. A related case study has been discussed, experimental results and conclusions of the findings are provided at the end of the paper.