Application of decision making and fuzzy sets theory to evaluate the healthcare and medical problems: a review of three decades of research with recent …

A Mardani, RE Hooker, S Ozkul, S Yifan… - Expert Systems with …, 2019 - Elsevier
Decision making techniques have been widely used in healthcare and medical industry.
This study systematically reviews the conventional and fuzzy decision-making techniques …

A state of the art literature review of VIKOR and its fuzzy extensions on applications

M Gul, E Celik, N Aydin, AT Gumus, AF Guneri - Applied soft computing, 2016 - Elsevier
Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the research areas of operations research
and management science which has widely studied by researchers and practitioners. It finds …

A comprehensive MCDM-based approach using TOPSIS, COPRAS and DEA as an auxiliary tool for material selection problems

SH Mousavi-Nasab, A Sotoudeh-Anvari - Materials & design, 2017 - Elsevier
Material selection problem can be interpreted as an intricate MCDM problem. The aim of this
work is to provide a simple and comprehensive MCDM-based framework for solving this …

Forest fire susceptibility mapping via multi-criteria decision analysis techniques for Mugla, Turkey: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS

F Sari - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Turkey has a high forest fire potential along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, related
to climate and extremely sensitive forests. In Turkey over 10,000-ha forest area has been …

DNMA: A double normalization-based multiple aggregation method for multi-expert multi-criteria decision making

H Liao, X Wu - Omega, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper develops a comprehensive algorithm for multi-expert multi-criteria decision
making problems considering quantitative and qualitative criteria in forms of benefit, cost or …

A state-of-the-art survey on the influence of normalization techniques in ranking: Improving the materials selection process in engineering design

A Jahan, KL Edwards - Materials & Design (1980-2015), 2015 - Elsevier
Considerable effort has been spent on the development of normalization models in multi-
attribute decision-making (MADM) but despite all of these there is no definitive answer to …

Fuzzy decision by opinion score method

MM Salih, BB Zaidan, AA Zaidan - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods have been utilised to solve discrete
problems in broad domains. Existing MCDM methods have been developed on the basis of …

Application of TOPSIS and VIKOR improved versions in a multi criteria decision analysis to develop an optimized municipal solid waste management model

MA Mir, PT Ghazvinei, NMN Sulaiman… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Selecting a suitable Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method is a crucial
stage to establish a Solid Waste Management (SWM) system. Main objective of the current …

Comparative analysis of the normalization techniques in the context of MCDM problems

A Aytekin - Decision Making: Applications in Management and …, 2021 - dmame-journal.org
NormNormalization is an essential step in data analysis and for MCDM methods. This study
aims to outline the positive and negative features of the normalization techniques that can …

[HTML][HTML] A fuzzy logic based PROMETHEE method for material selection problems

M Gul, E Celik, AT Gumus, AF Guneri - … -Suef University Journal of Basic and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Material selection is a complex problem in the design and development of products for
diverse engineering applications. This paper presents a fuzzy PROMETHEE (Preference …