BUKU ABSTRAK - Universiti Putra Malaysia

Aggregating Group MCDM Problems using a Fuzzy Delphi Model for Personnel
Performance Appraisal
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rosnah Mohd. Yusuff
Mohammad Anisseh and Alireza Shakarami
Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 6342; rosnah@eng.upm.edu.my
Keywords: MCDM, personnel performance appraisal, aggregation, fuzzy delphi, group decision
Porcine DNA Test Kit
Keywords: Portable PCR
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shuhaimi Mustafa
Yaakob Che Man and Farihah Liyana Khalid
Institute of Products Halal Research, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8941 6541; shuhaimi@biotech.upm.edu.my
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Science, Technology & Engineering
Personnel performance appraisal is a tool towards achieving organisation goals, its main focus is to increase
the abilities, merits and growth of personnel. We looked at the personnel performance appraisal as an element
of group decision making model in which personnel are evaluated from different points of view. A fuzzy Delphi
method and linguistic terms represented by triangular fuzzy numbers were applied to bring out qualitative and
quantitative attributes and assess attributes weights and relative importance of evaluation group’s viewpoints. We
developed MCDM models for group personnel performance appraisal. All the known MCDM methods have their
own advantages and drawbacks which therefore yield different results based on their various techniques. As a
consequence we presented a model for aggregation of the results of the MCDM models.
This invention describes the detection of porcine DNA in food and non-food products using portable PCR.
The system comprises of cartridge and portable PCR machine. The cartridge and portable PCR machine perform
the DNA extraction, PCR reaction and detection at one go with very minimum training required for the operator
as opposed to conventional PCR and Real time PCR which required highly skilled operators. The developed
system requires only one step-one button-one hour to complete the detection of porcine DNA in food and nonfood
products.