Analitik hiyerarşi yöntemini kullanarak AR&GE projelerinin sınıflandırma uygulaması

ABSTRACTAN APPLICATION OF CLUSTERING R&D PROJECTSBY USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESSMehmet Tunş cM.S. in Industrial EngineeringüuuSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulkü GürlerJuly, 2004Due to imprecision or uncertainty that is inherent in the design process, themanagement of research and development projects is very challenging. With thegrowing complexity of the design process and need for different specializations, itis getting even more tougher. Especially, in an organization where tens of high-tech, military R&D projects are carried out concurrently, management should besupported with the state-of-the-art decision and operations research methods.In this thesis, we consider an application of the classification of R&D projects.More specifically, the problem discussed in this study is grouping N differentprojects into groups based on a predetermined set of features. Since some fea-tures are fuzzy, expert knowledge is needed to quantify the features. In order toquantify the features successfully, Analytic Hierarchy Process is used. Finally, byusing various clustering algorithms the projects are clustered.Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process, clustering projects, quantification, multi-criteria clustering, project evaluation.iii