Designing a decision support system to predict the success of research centers with discriminatory analysis DEA

Research centers have an important place in promoting science and technology nationwide. On the other hand, given the limitations in allocating the funds and the facilities needed to establish these centers, it is important to decide on the selection of priority centers. In this decision - making process, several factors, such as requirements, priorities and strategies, capabilities, and balanced and sustainable development, should be considered. The total of the above items will make decision-making on ranking and selecting proposed projects a complex, time - consuming and costly resource. To this end, designing and developing a decision support tool is considered. In this research, a DSS is designed and evaluated to evaluate the design of research centers for Islamic Azad University units. This decision - making system, based on information from research centers and indicators gathered by experts, as well as the history of successful and failed research centers, is better explored with the discriminatory analysis and data envelopment analysis, and ultimately prediction that is it possible that the research center of the applicant be successful.