Decision Support System for Boarding house Search Using Topsis Algorithm

Boarding house are temporary homes that are most in demand by students or upper level students. However, to get the appropriate boarding house is not easy because of the difficulty of obtaining boarding house information and also many boarding house criteria that must be considered such as rental rates, room area and boarding house facilities etc. Multi criteria decision support system using the Topsis method can facilitate students in finding boarding house. Users can input the boarding house criteria to be searched such as rental rates, room area and boarding house facilities, then after that a mathematical calculation will be performed on each boarding house using the Topsis method. Resulting in board recommendations that match what the user is looking for. The system is made using Java for Android-based programming. The test is performed using the confusion matrix method to measure the accuracy of the costing recommendations produced by the system, resulting in 83% accuracy and 17% of recommendation errors.