Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

431 Pages·2018·3.8 MB·English

by  Ali Emrouznejad

Fuzzy Analytic
Hierarchy Process

Fuzzy Analytic
Hierarchy Process
By
Ali Emrouznejad and William Ho
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Title: Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process / [edited by] Ali Emrouznejad,
William Ho.
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Contents
Preface ....................................................................................................................vii
Editors ......................................................................................................................xi
Contributors .........................................................................................................xiii
1. Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Set Theory .................................1
Ali Emrouznejad and William Ho
2. The State of the Art in FAHP in Risk Assessment ................................11
Peh Sang Ng, Joshua Ignatius, Mark Goh, Amirah Rahman, and Feng Zhang
3. Comparison of Methods in FAHP with Application in Supplier
Selection .........................................................................................................45
Nimet Yapici Pehlivan, Turan Paksoy, and Ahmet Çalik
4. Data Mining Group Decision-Making with FAHP: An
Application in Supplier Evaluation and Segmentation ........................77
Mohammad Hasan Aghdaie
5. Group Decision-Making under Uncertainty: FAHP Using
Intuitionistic and Hesitant Fuzzy Sets ...................................................103
Cengiz Kahraman and Fatih Tüysüz
6. An Integrated TOPSIS and FAHP ...........................................................139
Antonio Rodríguez
7. An Integrated Fuzzy Delphi-AHP-TOPSIS with an
Application to Logistics Service Quality Evaluation Using a
Multistakeholder Multiperspective Approach .....................................161
Anjali Awasthi and Hassan Mukhtar
8. The Inclusion of Logical Interaction between Criteria in FAHP .....181
Ksenija Mandić, Vjekoslav Bobar, and Boris Delibašić
9. Interval Type-2 FAHP: A Multicriteria Wind Turbine Selection .....205
Cengiz Kahraman, Başar Öztayşi, and Sezi Çevik Onar
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10. A Decision Support for Prioritizing Process Sustainability
Tools Using FAHP ......................................................................................231
Vinodh S and Vimal KEK
11. Use of FAHP for Occupational Safety Risk Assessment: An
Application in the Aluminum Extrusion Industry .............................249
Muhammet Gul and Ali Fuat Guneri
12. Assessing the Management of Electronic Scientific Journals
Using Hybrid FDELPHI and FAHP Methodology ..............................273
Nara Medianeira Stefano, Raul Otto Laux, Nelson Casarotto Filho,
Lizandra Lupi Garcia Vergara, and Izabel Cristina Zattar
13. Applications of FAHP in Analysing Energy Systems .........................311
Sonal K. Thengane, Andrew Hoadley, Sankar Bhattacharya,
Sagar Mitra, and Santanu Bandyopadhyaye
14. FAHP-Based Decision Making Framework for Construction
Projects ..........................................................................................................327
Long D. Nguyen and Dai Q. Tran
15. Plantation Land Segmentation for an Orchard Establishment
Using FAHP .................................................................................................347
Theagarajan Padma, S. P. Shantharajah, and Shabir Ahmad Mir
16. Developing a Decision on the Type of Prostate Cancer Using
FAHP .............................................................................................................371
Lazim Abdullah
17. Assessing Environmental Actions in the Natura 2000 Network
Areas Using FAHP ......................................................................................385
J. M. Sánchez-Lozano and J. A. Bernal-Conesa
Index .....................................................................................................................401
Preface
The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) introduced by Thomas Saaty (1980) is a
modern tool for dealing with complex decision-making and may help the deci-
sion maker to set priorities to make the best decision. Due to its simplicity, ease
of use, and great flexibility, the AHP has been studied extensively and used
in nearly all applications related to multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)
since its development. Besides being applied to the finance sector, the AHP has
been adopted in education; engineering; government; industry; management;
manufacturing; personal, political, and social systems; and sports.
While the vast majority of applications of MCDM use crisp data, it is
quite possible that the data in many real applications are not crisp. Hence,
imprecision may arise for a variety of reasons: unquantifiable information,
incomplete information, unobtainable information, and partial ignorance.
Conventional multiple attribute decision-making methods cannot effec-
tively handle problems with such imprecise information. Hence, fuzzy AHP
(FAHP) has been developed to deal with uncertain data and the imprecision
in assessing the relative importance of attributes and the performance rat-
ings of alternatives with respect to attributes.
The main objective of this book is to provide the necessary background to
work with FAHP by introducing some novel methods as well as to introduce
some useful applications of FAHP for both interested academics and practi-
tioners, and to benefit society, industry, academia, and government.
To facilitate this goal, Chapter 1 provides background information about
fuzzy sets and FAHP. In this chapter, Ali Emrouznejad and William Ho
investigate the research areas that are the most influenced by the AHP and
discuss the use of fuzzy sets in uncertain situations along with the AHP.
This chapter highlights a major effort involved in handling FAHP, which has
led to several applications that have proven to be very useful when there is a
notion of uncertainty in the data.
This is followed by a comprehensive discussion and review literature on
risk assessment methodologies that incorporate FAHP. In Chapter 2, Peh
Sang Ng, Joshua Ignatius, Mark Goh, Amirah Rahman, and Feng Zhang
classify FAHP applications into two main categories: fuzzy singular analytic
hierarchy processes and fuzzy hybrid analytic hierarchy processes. This
chapter aims to uncover the recent trends and applications of FAHP over
the past two decades. Pragmatically, this work serves as a guide to research-
ers who are seeking research gaps in the area of risk assessment and FAHP
models.
In Chapter 3, Nimet Yapici Pehlivan, Turan Paksoy, and Ahmet Çalik com-
pare methods in FAHP with application in supplier selection. As discussed in
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this chapter, there has recently been a growing pressure on the managers of
global supply chains to be environmentally conscious with regard to their sup-
ply chain network. The main aim of this chapter is to provide a comparative
analysis of FAHP methods for the supplier selection problems when dealing
with green issues, such as carbon emissions, corporate social responsibility,
green packaging, green handling, and waste management policy.
In the same area, in Chapter 4, Mohammad Hasan Aghdaie focuses on an
application in supplier evaluation using data mining group decision-making
with FAHP. This chapter explains that incorporation of imprecise informa-
tion and vagueness is an unavoidable requirement of fine decision-making
models. Specifically, this chapter provides a case study in the fast-moving
consumer goods (FMCG) industry using a novel integrated fuzzy group
analytic hierarchy process (FGAHP), simple additive weighting (SAW), and
two-stage cluster analysis as a data mining tool for supplier evaluation and
segmentation when the data are uncertain.
Further to this, the fundamental concepts of intuitionistic and hesitant fuzzy
sets and proposed AHP approaches based on these extensions are presented by
Cengiz Kahraman and Fatih Tüysüz in Chapter 5. This chapter also discusses,
in detail, two different approaches of AHP methods based on interval-valued
intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFS) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS).
The use of FAHP in combination with the technique for order of preference
by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is the subject of Chapter 6 in which
Antonio Rodríguez presents an overview of the implementation of MCDM
methods based on the integration of FAHP and TOPSIS. In addition, this
chapter presents a new method that incorporates variable weights analysis
(VWA) to implement evaluation weights, a very useful feature for those eval-
uation models in which the evaluation formulas have to be fixed in advance.
Delphi-AHP-TOPSIS with an application to logistics service quality evalua-
tion when using a multistakeholder multiperspective approach is the subject
of Chapter 7. In this chapter, Anjali Awasthi and Hassan Mukhtar propose
a three-step analysis where, in the first step, a fuzzy Delphi (FDELPHI)
technique is used to identify the requirements (criteria) for logistics service
quality evaluation. The second step involves attributing weights to these
requirements using FAHP and, in the third step, fuzzy TOPSIS is used to
rank the alternatives for logistics service quality improvement.
The inclusion of logical interaction between criteria in FAHP is discussed
in Chapter 8 by Ksenija Mandić, Vjekoslav Bobar, and Boris Delibašic´. This
chapter proposes a hybrid model, by integrating interpolative Boolean alge-
bra (IBA) into FAHP, for supporting the selection of suppliers in the telecom-
munications sector by using fuzzy MCDM and logical interactions between
criteria. A comparative study of the traditional FAHP, where all criteria are
standalone and assumed to be independent, against FAHP, which uses logi-
cal interactions set by decision makers as decision criteria, is also presented
in this chapter.
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Extending the ordinary FAHP to interval type-2 FAHP is the subject of
Chapter 9 as discussed by Cengiz Kahraman, Başar Öztayşi, and Sezi
Çevik Onar. Specifically, this chapter focuses on technology selection for
wind energy using an interval type-2 FAHP method.
In Chapter 10, Vinodh S and Vimal KEK present a decision support sys-
tem for prioritizing process sustainability tools using FAHP. This chapter
first reviews literature on sustainable manufacturing criteria, process sus-
tainability tools, and AHP applications in the sustainability domain. This
is followed by a case study to improve the sustainable performance of the
manufacturing processes using five tools: energy modeling, waste minimi-
zation, carbon footprint analysis, parametric optimization, and water foot-
print analysis.
The rest of this book provides guidance on using several applications of
FAHP in different areas.
In Chapter 11, Muhammet Gul and Ali Fuat Guneri develop an applica-
tion in the aluminum extrusion industry by using FAHP for occupational
safety risk assessment. Specifically, FAHP is proposed to deal with short-
comings of a precise risk score measurement and decrease the inconsis-
tency in decision-making, enabling occupational health and safety (OHS)
experts to use linguistic terms for evaluating three parameters of the
proportional risk assessment (PRA) method. First, these parameters are
weighted by using FAHP. Then the orders of priority for hazard groups
are determined by using fuzzy TOPSIS. In order to show the applicability
of the proposed approach, a case application in an aluminum extrusion
workplace is discussed.
An application of hybrid FDELPHI and FAHP as a tool for assessing the
management of electronic scientific journals is given by Nara Medianeira
Stefano, Raul Otto Laux, Nelson Casarotto Filho, Lizandra Lupi Garcia
Vergara, and Izabel Cristina Zattar in Chapter 12. This is done in a two-stage
analysis where in the first stage the FDELPHI is used to raise the critical fac-
tors (criteria/subcriteria) present in the management of electronic scientific
journal, and in the second stage the FAHP is applied to calculate the relative
weights of the selected criteria/subcriteria that affect management.
In Chapter 13, Sonal K. Thengane, Andrew Hoadley, Sankar Bhattacharya,
Sagar Mitra, and Santanu Bandyopadhyay present the novel application of
FAHP in analyzing energy systems. More specifically, this chapter discusses
the application of different types of FAHPs in some major areas concerning
energy systems with examples explaining the choice of criteria and meth-
odology of analysis. The main focus in this study is on the applications of
FAHP in four sections, namely energy sources, renewable energy technol-
ogy, energy policy and site selection, and alternative fuels.
Applications of FAHP based on a decision-making framework for
construction projects are discussed in Chapter 14. In this chapter,
Long D. Nguyen and Dai Q. Tran explain the use of FAHP to quantify the