Recognition that R&D (Research and Development) project is important for national competitiveness and sustainable economic growth has been extended all over the world, and the government financial support for R&D projects has increased. Therefore, government needs to make a decision about whether it invests in any project or not, and this decision-making complies with evaluation of the relevant experts. In this study, we improve project selection methods and procedures based on outranking methods which have mainly focused on general project environmental analysis in order to apply to the government support R&D project selection, and suggest R&D project selection methods and procedures that meet the purpose of government support. Therefore, it demonstrates that improved methods organize more profitable project groups to the purpose of the selecting government support R&D project than existing methods. Also, it illustrates that it is possible for decision makers to analyze variously by changing composition of selecting project group with variation of α.
In this paper, we proposed an auto-encoder model of observation-wise linear transformation to reduce the dimensionality of data. While nonlinear models can reduce the dimensionality more effectively than linear models, such as the principal component analysis, the non-linear methods can hardly provide a simple linear relationship between the original and the dimensionally reduced data. The proposed model overcomes this difficulty while maintaining the effectiveness of the dimensionality reduction. We assessed the proposed model and compared with PCA and a typical auto-encoder model in terms of the loss function and the degree of reconstruction of the original data. By applying the proposed method to a public data of MNIST and Fashion-MNIST, we showed the effectiveness in the dimensionality reduction and relationship between the original data to the reduced data.