An Alternative Ranking Approach and Its Usage in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

DOI

10.2991/ijcis.2009.2.3.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fuzzy numbers, ranking, decision-making, TOPSIS, scoring, AHP.

Abstract

In the process of fuzzy decision-making, ranking of fuzzy numbers is a necessity. The types of fuzzy numbers are triangular, trapezoidal, and L-R type. In the literature, there are many methods developed for ranking fuzzy numbers. These methods may produce different ranking results. Many of these methods necessitate graphical representations, complex and tedious calculations. The method developed in this paper has some advantages with respect to the other methods in both graphical representations and calculations. Applicability of the proposed method to multi-criteria decision-making methods, i.e. fuzzy scoring, fuzzy AHP and fuzzy TOPSIS methods, is shown in the paper.

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© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cengiz Kahraman
AU  - A. Cagri Tolga
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2009/10/01
TI  - An Alternative Ranking Approach and Its Usage in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making
JO  - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
SP  - 219
EP  - 235
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 1875-6883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.2009.2.3.4
DO  - 10.2991/ijcis.2009.2.3.4
ID  - Kahraman2009
ER  -