A Multi-criteria Decision Support System for Ph.D. Supervisor Selection: A Hybrid Approach

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dc.contributor.authorHasan, Mir Anamul
dc.contributor.authorSchwartz, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-02T23:57:16Z
dc.date.available2019-01-02T23:57:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractSelection of a suitable Ph.D. supervisor is a very important step in a student’s career. This paper presents a multi-criteria decision support system to assist students in making this choice. The system employs a hybrid method that first utilizes a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to extract the relative importance of the identified criteria and sub-criteria to consider when selecting a supervisor. Then, it applies an information retrieval-based similarity algorithm (TF/IDF or Okapi BM25) to retrieve relevant candidate supervisor profiles based on the student’s research interest. The selected profiles are then re-ranked based on other relevant factors chosen by the user, such as publication record, research grant record, and collaboration record. The ranking method evaluates the potential supervisors objectively based on various metrics that are defined in terms of detailed domain-specific knowledge, making part of the decision making automatic. In contrast with other existing works, this system does not require the professor’s involvement and no subjective measures are employed.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.220
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59622
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMulti-criteria Decision Analysis and Support Systems
dc.subjectDecision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science
dc.subjectAcademic Search, Expert Search, Fuzzy AHP, MCDM, Ph.D. Supervisor Selection
dc.titleA Multi-criteria Decision Support System for Ph.D. Supervisor Selection: A Hybrid Approach
dc.typeConference Paper
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