SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN CALON PENERIMA BEASISWA KURANG MAMPU PADA SMK SULTAN AGUNG 1 MENGGUNAKAN METODE SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING
Scholarship of underprivileged is a grant provided by goverment or institutions to students from underprivileged family. Scholarship covering all levels of education, whether student still in primary school until college. The selection of scholarship is obtained if students meet the specified criteria. Scholarship selection in the SMK Sultan Agung 1 Jombang sometimes not accordance with assessment results. Many rich student are able to get scholarship while underprivileged students don’t get scholarship. The large number of students applying for scholarship make it difficult to make a decision. Based on this, build a decision support system can assist SMK Sultan Agung 1 Jombang to manage the selection of scholarship based on criteria. Decision Support System are build using PHP as programming language and MySQL as database. This system is called Simple Additive Weighting (SAW). SAW method is performing a weighted sum of performance ratings on each alternative on all attributes. This method are suitable to be used in making decision support system because the result obtained accordingly. The System do ranking from the best alternative of the student who applied scholarship. System has been tested to determine performance of the system along with functions contained in the system. Testing is done using Blackbox testing method. This test done by trying the existing function on the system, whether it is suitable with the expected result by the school. The result obtained from Blackbox testing indicate that the system created has been running well.
Keyword : Decision Support System, Simple Additive Weighting, Scholarship