The Feasibility Study of ISM Toolbox via Matlab GUI

The interpretive structure modeling(ISM) is one of the important quantitative models in social science, especially in education. Due to the main function of interpretive structure modeling is to deal with complex issues; it not only can do hierarchical analysis in complex systems, but also clusters the system structure, which provides a method to solve the system problems. However, through the practical application in the past, we found that the calculation processes are quite boring and very complex. Therefore, the paper starts from the software engineering point of view to use Matlab to develop a GUI toolbox to help the complex calculation and simplex the analysis in system problem. Through the verification of two practical examples in social field, we can found that it has high accuracy and high convenience at the same time, which can also increase the breadth and practicality of computing field and interpretive structure modeling.