An Identification of Better Engineering College with Conflicting Criteria using Adaptive TOPSIS

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T. Miranda Lakshmi 1,* V. Prasanna Venkatesan 2 A. Martin 3

1. Research and Development Centre, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India

2. Department of Banking Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

3. Department of MCA, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engg. College, Puducherry, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2016.05.03

Received: 9 Jan. 2016 / Revised: 5 Feb. 2016 / Accepted: 12 Mar. 2016 / Published: 8 May 2016

Index Terms

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) evaluation, TOPSIS, Adaptive TOPSIS, better engineering college, COPRAS, Rank reversal, repeated ranking

Abstract

Students like to find better engineering college for their higher education. It is very challenging to find the better engineering college with conflicting criteria. In this research, the criterion such as academic reputation and achievements, infrastructure, fees structure, location, quality of the faculty, research facilities and other criterion are considered to find the better engineering college. Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is the most well known branch of decision making under the presence of conflicting criteria. TOPSIS is one of the MCDM technique widely applied to solve the problems which involves many number of criteria. In this research, TOPSIS is Adaptive and applied to find better engineering college. To evaluate the proposed methodology the parameters such as time complexity, space complexity, sensitivity analysis and rank reversal are considered. In this comparative analysis, better results are obtained for Adaptive TOPSIS compared to COPRAS.

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T. Miranda Lakshmi, V. Prasanna Venkatesan, A. Martin, "An Identification of Better Engineering College with Conflicting Criteria using Adaptive TOPSIS", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science(IJMECS), Vol.8, No.5, pp.19-31, 2016. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2016.05.03

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