Title: Quantitative class association rule-based approach to lecturer career promotion recommendation

Authors: Tubagus Mohammad Akhriza; Indah Dwi Mumpuni

Addresses: Pradnya Paramita School of Informatics Management and Computer (STMIK Pradnya Paramita), Malang, East Java, Indonesia ' Pradnya Paramita School of Informatics Management and Computer (STMIK Pradnya Paramita), Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract: This paper introduces an effective method for recommendation of career promotion for educators in universities. Given an educator with an activity profile currently in a certain career state, the system is able to recommend the next career state that is most suitable for the educator by learning the pattern of historical activities of other educators. The system also recommends activities and their volume that the educators should take in order to achieve the career state. Patterns of activities and their volume were obtained using the quantitative class-association rule mining method that classifies quantified activities to a next-state class. The experiment using educator career data taken from Indonesian universities produced several recommendations that were somewhat contrary to the opinions of experts about educators who can make a career leap, an indication that expert subjectivity was more dominant than a statistically more reliable recommendation system in making decisions.

Keywords: association rule; career promotion; higher education; Indonesia; recommendation system.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIDS.2021.116507

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2021 Vol.13 No.2, pp.192 - 217

Received: 15 Oct 2019
Accepted: 01 Mar 2020
Published online: 27 Jul 2021 *

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