scholarly journals Decision Making in Uncertain Rural Scenarios by means of Fuzzy TOPSIS Method

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Armero ◽  
M. Socorro García-Cascales ◽  
M. Dolores Gómez-López ◽  
M. Teresa Lamata

A great deal of uncertain information which is difficult to quantify is taken into account by farmers and experts in the enterprise when making decisions. We are interested in the problems of the implementation of a rabbit-breeding farm. One of the first decisions to be taken refers to the design or type of structure for housing the animals, which is determined by the level of environmental control sought to be maintained in its interior. A farmer was consulted, and his answers were incorporated into the analysis, by means of the fuzzy TOPSIS methodology. The main purpose of this paper is to study the problem by means of the fuzzy TOPSIS method as multicriteria decision making, when the information was given in linguistic terms.

Author(s):  
Manzoor Hussain

Fuzzy entropy is being used to measure the uncertainty with high precision and accuracy than classical crisp set theory. It plays a vital role in handling complex daily life problems involving uncertainty. In this manuscript, we first review several existing entropy measures and then propose novel entropy to measure the uncertainty of a fuzzy set. We also construct an axiomatic definition based on the proposed entropy measure. Numerical comparison analysis is carried out with existing entropies to show the reliability and practical applicability of our proposed entropy measure. Numerical results show that our suggested entropy is reasonable and appropriate in dealing with vague and uncertain information. Finally, we utilize our proposed entropy measure to construct fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Ordering Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method to manage Multicriteria decision-making problems related to daily life settings. The final results demonstrate the practical effectiveness and applicability of our proposed entropy measure


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liguo Fei ◽  
Yong Hu ◽  
Fuyuan Xiao ◽  
Luyuan Chen ◽  
Yong Deng

Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) is an important branch of operations research which composes multiple-criteria to make decision. TOPSIS is an effective method in handling MCDM problem, while there still exist some shortcomings about it. Upon facing the MCDM problem, various types of uncertainty are inevitable such as incompleteness, fuzziness, and imprecision result from the powerlessness of human beings subjective judgment. However, the TOPSIS method cannot adequately deal with these types of uncertainties. In this paper, aD-TOPSIS method is proposed for MCDM problem based on a new effective and feasible representation of uncertain information, calledDnumbers. TheD-TOPSIS method is an extension of the classical TOPSIS method. Within the proposed method,Dnumbers theory denotes the decision matrix given by experts considering the interrelation of multicriteria. An application about human resources selection, which essentially is a multicriteria decision-making problem, is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposedD-TOPSIS method.


Using an appropriate methodology is crucial in the analysis. Therefore, the suitable model should be selected according to the type of the evaluation. Otherwise, there is a risk of having inappropriate results. Because of this situation, recommendations can be problematic. In this book, three different analyses are performed. In two of them, fuzzy DEMATEL, fuzzy TOPSIS, and fuzzy VIKOR approaches are taken into consideration. In this chapter, these three methods are explained. In this framework, some studies, which used these methods, are explained.


2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Emin BAYSAL ◽  
İhsan KAYA ◽  
Cengiz KAHRAMAN ◽  
Ahmet SARUCAN ◽  
Orhan ENGIN

A municipality improves the quality of community life through its projects and actions. However, project selection and prioritization by municipalities are highly complex processes. Therefore, multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methodologies are very suitable for determining the best alternative. Recently, some studies have concentrated on the selection of the best project alternatives. In this paper, a two phased fuzzy MCDM methodology is proposed for the selection among municipal projects. In the first phase, fuzzy TOPSIS method is used to select the main project group and then fuzzy AHP is used to select the best sub-municipal project. The application of the suggested methodology has been made at the central district municipality in Konya, Turkey.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52-54 ◽  
pp. 1868-1872
Author(s):  
Liang Liang ◽  
Ren Yan Jiang ◽  
Yin Liang

It is difficult to obtain the correct criteria weights with uncertain information in the multicriteria decision-making. Many methods depend on the subjective estimate. Therefore, a method is presented to evaluate the samples ranking only need the importance order of criteria. It evaluates firstly the overall ranking scores of samples based on the graphical classification and multicriteria hierarchical integrated methods. Subsequently, the relation model between the criteria scores and overall ranking scores of samples is built by linear regression. Finally, a fincial credit loan decision-making problem is presented to describe the way of the multicriteria decisiion making process. The analysis to compare with the AHP method illustrates the proposed method is objective and effective.


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