%0 Journal Article
%T A Decision Making Method for Educational Management Based on Distance Measures || Toma de decisiones en procesos de gesti車n de la educaci車n basados en las medidas de distancia
%A Merig車 Lindahl
%A Jos谷 M.
%A L車pez-Jurado
%A Mar赤a Pilar
%A Gracia Ramos
%A Mar赤a Carmen
%J Revista de M谷todos Cuantitativos para la Econom赤a y la Empresa
%D 2009
%I Pablo de Olavide University
%X We develop a new approach for decision making in educational management based on the use of distance measures. We focus on the selection of a studies plan from the perspective of an academic institution. We try to develop this approach showing the benefits of establishing an ideal plan that we compare with the available alternatives. We use the Minkowski distance, the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator and the interval numbers. The use of the Minkowski distance allows to make comparisons between the ideal planand the available ones in the market. The OWA operator is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators that includes the maximum, the minimum and the average criteria, among others. And the interval numbers is a very useful technique to represent the information when the environment is very complex, because it gives all the possible results from the minimum to the maximum. We introduce a new aggregation operator called the uncertain generalized ordered weighted averaging distance (UGOWAD) operator. It is a distance aggregation operator that uses the main characteristics of the Minkowski distance, the OWA operator and the interval numbers. We develop an illustrative example wherewe can see the usefulness of the UGOWAD operator to select a studies plan in education management. The main advantage of using the UGOWAD is that we can consider a wide range of distance aggregation methods in the decision problem. Then, the decision maker gets a more complete view of the decision problem, being able to select the alternative that better fits the interests. || Se desarrolla un nuevo modelo para la toma de decisiones en procesos de gesti車n de la educaci車n basados en las medidas de distancia. El an芍lisisse enfoca en analizar un proceso de selecci車n de plan de estudios desde la perspectiva de una instituci車n acad谷mica. Se intenta mostrar la practicidad de utilizar un plan de estudios imaginario que ser赤a el ideal a partir del cual se comparar赤an las diferentes alternativas disponibles. Para realizar esto, se utilizar芍n diferentes t谷cnicas disponibles en Teor赤a de la Decisi車n, como son la distancia de Minkowski, el operador de medias ponderadas (OWA) y los intervalos de confianza. La utilizaci車n de la distancia de Minkowski nos permite hacer comparaciones entre un plan de estudios ideal y los disponiblesen la realidad. El operador OWA es un operador de agregaci車n que proporciona una familia parametrizada de operadores de agregaci車n entre los cuales se destaca el m芍ximo, el m赤nimo y la media aritm谷tica. Los intervalo
%K decision making
%K selection of studies plan
%K uncertainty
%K Minkowski distance
%K aggregation operators
%K toma de decisiones
%K selecci車n de plan de estudios
%K incertidumbre
%K distancia de Minkowski
%K operadores de agregaci車n
%U http://www.upo.es/RevMetCuant/art30.pdf