The multicriteria group decision making flowsort method under uncertainty

• Authors: Remadi Fedia Daami , Moalla Frikha Hela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Crisp values are insufficient to model real-life situations and imprecise ideas are frequently represented in multicriteria decision aid analysis. In fact, it is difficult to treat the evaluation criteria precisely and to fix exact preferences rating. The triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers succeeded to treat this kind of ambiguity in a great deal of research than other forms of fuzzy representation functions. The field of sorting issues is an active research topic in the multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA). This study extended one of the sorting methods, FLOWSORT, for solving multiple criteria group decision-making problems. This extension described the preferences rating of alternatives as linguistic terms which can be easily expressed in triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. To validate our extension, an illustrative example as well as an empirical comparison with other multi-criteria decision making methods is presented.

Keywords

EN

Intuitionistic fuzzy set; FlowSort method; Multicriteria group decision making; Sorting problematic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 122-139

Contributors

author

Remadi Fedia Daami

• Research Laboratory “Optimisation, Logistique et Informatique Décisionnelle” (OLID), University of Sfax, Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

author

Moalla Frikha Hela

• Research Laboratory “Optimisation, Logistique et Informatique Décisionnelle” (OLID), University of Sfax, Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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2084-1531