Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy based DBMS Selection in Turkish National Identity Card Management Project

Database Management Systems (DBMS) play an important role to support enterprise application developments. Selection of the right DBMS is a crucial decision for software engineering process. This selection requires optimizing a number of criteria. Evaluation and selection of DBMS among several candidates tend to be very complex. It requires both quantitative and qualitative issues. Wrong selection of DBMS will have a negative effect on the development of enterprise application. It can turn out to be costly and adversely affect business process. The following study focuses on the evaluation of a multi criteria decision problem by the usage of fuzzy logic. We will demonstrate the methodological considerations regarding to group decision and fuzziness based on the DBMS selection problem. We developed a new Fuzzy AHP based decision model which is formulated and proposed to select a DBMS easily. In this decision model, first, main criteria and their sub criteria are determined for the evaluation. Then these criteria are weighted by pair-wise comparison, and then DBMS alternatives are evaluated by assigning a rating scale