DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND DETERMINING INTERNATIONAL CLASS PROGRAM: GA AND AHP APPROACH

This study proposes a new method, a hybrid model for managing and determining the proposed International class based on many criteria of academic performance in university. The approach has been implemented as a decision support system allowing evaluation of various criteria and scenarios. The new model combines two different methods in decision support system: Analytical hierarchy Process (AHP) and Grey Analysis, the proposed model uses the AHP pairwise comparisons and the measure scale to generate the weights for the criteria which are much better and guarantee more fairly preference of criteria. Applying the system as decision-support facility for the management has resulted in significant acceleration of planning procedures and implementation, raised the overall effectiveness with respect to the underlying methodology and ultimately enabled more efficient academic administration

Decision Support System for Managing and Determining International Class Program

Indonesian higher education today is faced with serious challenges that will threaten the existence of some universities. An increasing international competition will require that universities take a progressive approach to attract enough students to ensure their survival. One way the universities must improve is in the quality of their administration management. While universities in Indonesia do not compare well internationally, steps can be taken to improve the quality. There are potential lessons to be learned from corporate experience in quality control management. Decision-making in the field of academic resource planning involves extensive analysis of many data originating from multiple systems. Academic resource planning management is concerned with management resources in order to effectively support the university’s educational framework (such as offered degrees, enrolment and retention, resources teaching, course structure and curriculum). We propose a methodology for managing and determining the proposed International class based on many criteria of academic performance in university. The approach has been implemented as a decision support system allowing evaluation of various criteria and scenarios. The system combines two different methods in decision support system: Analytical hierarchy Process (AHP) and linear weightage model, the proposed model uses the AHP pairwise comparisons and the measure scale to generate the weights for the criteria which are much better and guarantee more fairly preference of criteria. Applying the system as decision-support facility for the management has resulted in significant acceleration of planning procedures and implementation, raised the overall effectiveness with respect to the underlying methodology and ultimately enabled more efficient academic administration

Performance Evaluation of Malaysian University Website

In recent years, many people have devoted their efforts to the issue of Web site performance. Web performance testing can be divided into many categories. It is usually performed in different aspects such as user interface, functionality, interface compatibility, load/stress, and security. This research investigates Malaysian university performance of the website under the World Wide Web environment. In the World Wide Web environment, we measure real data and obtain response time via the evaluation procedure. This research conducts some tests to measure the performance of a web site via a website test. To get results on the performance of a Web site, we measure some data from the calculate page size, composition, and download time, markup validation ,number of broken link, and number of link connected to the site. Based on the observation result indicates that web sites performance of the Malaysian University website is relatively low compared to world class university website

Analysis of Green Computing Strategy in University: Analytic Network Process (ANP) Approach

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis do not provide an analytical means to determine the importance of the identified factors of green computing strategy and implementation. Although the SWOT analysis successfully explores the factors, individual factors are usually described very generally. For this reason, SWOT analysis possesses deficiencies in the measurement and evaluation of green computing steps. Even though the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique eliminates these deficiencies, it does not allow for measuring the possible dependencies among the individual factors. The AHP method assumes that the green computing factors presented in the hierarchical structure are independent; however, this assumption may be inappropriate in light of certain situation. Therefore, it is important to utilize a form of SWOT analysis that calculates and takes into account the possible dependency among the factors. This paper demonstrates a process for quantitative SWOT analysis of green computing implementation that can be performed even when there is dependence among strategic factors. The proposed algorithm uses the analytic network process (ANP), which allows measurement of the dependency among the green computing implementation factors, as well as AHP, which is based on the independence between the factors. There are four alternatives: campus awareness program, computer procurement, increase in heat removal requirement, and increase in equipment power density for improving the implementation of green computing in campus. Dependency among the SWOT factors is observed to effect the strategic and sub-factor weights, as well as to change the strategy priorities. Based on ANC method, the best alternative for this implementation is computer procurement

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ON QUALITY OF ASIAN AIRLINES WEBSITES – AN AHP PPROACH

In recent years, many people have devoted their efforts to the issue of quality of Web site. The concept of quality is consisting of many criteria: quality of service perspective, a user perspective, a content perspective or indeed a usability perspective. Because of its possible instant worldwide audience a Website’s quality and reliability are crucial. The very special nature of the web applications and websites pose unique software testing challenges. Webmasters, Web applications developers, and Website quality assurance managers need tools and methods that can match up to the new needs. This research conducts some tests to measure the quality web site of Asian flag carrier airlines via web diagnostic tools online. We propose a methodology for determining and evaluate the best airlines websites based on many criteria of website quality. The approach has been implemented using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to generate the weights for the criteria which are much better and guarantee more fairly preference of criteria. The proposed model uses the AHP pairwise comparisons and the measure scale to generate the weights for the criteria which are much better and guarantee more fairly preference of criteria. The result of this study confirmed that the airlines websites of Asian are neglecting performance and quality criteria

POETIC LANGUAGE IN NAZARETH’S “LOVE HURTS”

This study is concerned with how language is poetically used in one of Nazareth’s song lyrics, “Love Hurts”. The language encompasses a series of figures of speech. This study was performed as an alternative practice in teaching English poetry. Figures of speech intrinsically compose English poetry. Because the figures of speech contain implied meaning, they might not be easily meaningful to a reader of the lyric. This study is intended to describe the figures of speech so that the language becomes more understandable to the reader. This study applies a textual analysis, and it adopts Leech’s linguistic guide to English poetry. The linguistic guide includes absurdity in the language of poetry; transference of meaning; and over and counter statement. The discussion works on each of the lyric’s lines, and it results in the series of figures of speech, comprising oxymoron, paradox, synecdoche, metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, and irony. The figures of speech indicate that the language is arranged to sweetly sound a melody. Besides that, the figures of speech indicate that the language is also used figuratively to contain the meaning. In other words, in the lyric, the language was used not only to be sung melodically, but it was also used to be written poetically

OPEN-SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION FOR E-LEARNING SYSTEM IN INDONESIAN UNIVERSITIES

University and educational organizations have different strategies in deploying E-learning systems, one of which is the use of open-source e-learning systems. This research is designed to analyze the implementation of elearning system using open source in the Indonesian universities. The survey result shows that the majority of elearning system from public and private universities in Indonesia use open source which is integrated to the university portal. The integration is considered favorable as it generally improve the content quality of e-learning system. This survey shows that the most frequently used open system system in Indonesian university is moodle. The finding also indicates that the content of e-learning websites of the Indonesian Universities is relatively low in quality compared to world class universities e-learning website

Study on Performance Appraisal Method of Vocational Education Teachers using PROMETHEE II

Evaluating vocational education teachers’ performance is an important link of teaching management and an important guarantee of improving teaching quality. In conducting teaching, research and community service, vocational education teachers should weight more on quality than quantity. In this context, individual habit reacts to the demanded jobs which are influenced by his/her knowledge, attitude, and skill. Teacher’s performance evaluation is nothing but a Multi Criteria Decision Making Problem (MCDM). There are several quality attributes that influence the efficiency of a potential vocational education teacher while guiding his/her students towards a positive and value added academic outcome. However, the importance of quality attributes may differ from individuals’ perspective. In other words, different attributes may have different weightage according to their priority of significance while evaluating quality/performance level of a vocational education teacher. This paper makes the vocational education teachers’ performance appraisal quantitative and determines the evaluation index based on academic performance. Criteria for performance are: teaching load, publication, research, conferencing, consultancy, services, teaching attitude, teaching content, teaching method, and teaching effect. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organisation METHod for Enrichment Evaluations) II analysis were used in performance appraisal. Application feasibility of this method approach and guidelines in solving such a multi-attribute decision making problem has been described illustratively in this paper. It is also observed that this MCDM approach is a viable tool in solving the teacher selection decision problems. It allows the decision maker to rank the candidate alternatives more efficiently and easily. Keywords: performance, teaching, Analytic Hierarchy Process, PROMETHEE II

Changes in Procyanidins and Tannin Concentration as Affected by Cocoa Liquor Roasting

Changes in cocoa procyanidins and tannin concentration as affected by cocoa liquor roasting were studied by heating up cocoa liquor of fermented beans containing 58 g kg-1 of polyphenols and the same liquor which was enriched with crude polyphenols, extracted from freeze-dried unfermented cocoa beans to a final concentration of 170 g kg-1. The liquors were roasted at 120 OC for 15, 25, 35 and 45 min with three replications. Result of the study showed that cocoa bean polyphenol was resistant against high temperature during heating of cocoa liquor 120 OC for up to 45 min. The resistance was stronger with the unfermented cocoa bean polyphenol than with fermented cocoa. High temperature promoted a small quantity of monomers up to pentamers of the fermented cocoa bean polyphenol to polymerize into higher oligomers, but did not with unfermented cocoa bean polyphenol. These results imply that the problem of lack in cocoa flavor in terms high astringency and bitterness due to high polyphenol content cannot be overcome by the application of high temperature during chocolate processing, meanwhile cocoa bean polyphenol could still give beneficial as an antioxidant even after high temperature application

COMPETENCY PROFILE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS IN MERTOYUDAN STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 AND MUNTILAN STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1

This study aims to determine the competency profile of ICT teachers at Mertoyudan State senior High school 1 and Muntilan State Senior high School 1. Besides, this research is expected to obtain any efforts made by those teachers. Type of this research is a descriptive research by using survey design methods with questionnaires instruments, practical booklet, and interviews. The subject of the research is ICT teacher at Mertoyudan State Senior High School 1 as many as 4 teachers and Muntilan Magelang State Senior high School 1 as many as 4 teachers as well. The data analysis used is descriptive analysis by statistic techniques. The results of this research shows that competency level of ICT teachers in Mertoyudan State Senior High School 1, are: there are 2 teachers categorized as quite good, 1 teacher categorized as less good and the last 1 teacher categorized as good. While the level of ICT competence of teachers in Muntilan Magelang State Senior High School 1 is the same like the first one. There are 2 teachers categorized as quite good, 1 teacher categorized as less good and the last 1 teacher categorized as good. Key word: Competency profile, Teacher