Methods for information system project selection: an experimental study of AHP and SMART

Author

Yap, C.S. ; Raman, K.S. ; Leong, C.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

iii

fYear

1992

fDate

7-10 Jan 1992

Firstpage

578

Abstract

Presents the findings of an experimental study of the perceived goodness of two multi-criteria methods for IS project selection: the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the simple multi-attribute rating technique (SMART). Student subjects were asked to solve either a simple or a complex problem, by either using any method (the control batches were not given training on AHP or SMART) or by using AHP or SMART. The task was to select one project from a number of proposed projects, given a set of scores for each proposed project on each of the selection criteria. The experimental results show that SMART is generally preferable to AHP, particularly for selection problems involving a large number of alternatives and selection criteria

Keywords

DP management; operations research; project engineering; AHP; SMART; analytic hierarchy process; information system project selection; multi-criteria methods; perceived goodness; selection criteria; simple multi-attribute rating technique; Computer science; Cost benefit analysis; Economics; Information analysis; Information systems; Investments; Management information systems; Project management; Resource management; Risk management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2420-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1992.183532

Filename

183532