A Rule Based SWOT Analysis Application: A Case Study for Indonesian Higher Education Institution

Learning the current condition of strength, weakness, opportunities, and threat (SWOT) can help a study program in a university in making a decision. For the middle term, it can also help in building strategic planning. However, conducting SWOT analysis is usually an expensive and time consuming activity. We have been doing a research to provide a software application that may facilitate study program stakeholders to conduct SWOT analysis more quickly and easily. The application is web-based providing question-answer system that allow users reveal facts and conditions of their study program. The system adopts assessment criteria of standard accreditation system for Indonesian higher education institution. The system implements sentiment analysis approach to help classification process in constructing SWOT matrix. The research shows that the application has a potential to help study program stakeholders to conduct SWOT analysis. The output of the application is considered reliable with approximately 80% of SWOT mapping is accepted by an expert. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.