The group decision support system model of research proposal assessment using researcher track record and research output

The Center of Research and Community Service (P3M) Sriwijaya State Polytechnic is one of the implementer elements in college, which coordinates, monitor, and assess research activity and implementation conducted by research centres or research groups from various majors and study programs. Nowadays, P3M Polsri has mostly conducted research schemes funded internally by the college. The research proposal assessment was conducted by looking at the substance of the proposal itself, without further consideration on the research output produced and the track record of the researchers’ profiles. This research makes Group Decision Support System (GDSS) model assist the research proposal reviewers in increasing their assessment quality. The model used in this research was Smart (Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique) to conduct ranking individually from the decision-makers, in this case, are the research proposal reviewers. Further, the aggregation process was conducted on the recommendation result from the decision-makers to obtain the final value recommendation in the GDSS process. The examination shows that the model developed is quite reliable in assisting the research proposal reviewer team in giving an objective assessment.