Weighted-additive fuzzy multi-choice goal programming (WA-FMCGP) for supporting renewable energy site selection decisions

Amin Hocine, Zheng-Yun Zhuang, Noureddine Kouaissah and Der-Chiang Li

European Journal of Operational Research, 2020, vol. 285, issue 2, 642-654

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel weighted-additive fuzzy multi-choice goal programming (WA-FMCGP) model for the imprecise decision context wherein several conflicting goals are present but each goal has multiple-choice aspiration levels (MCALs) and, around them, the fuzzinesses are expressed in terms of membership functions (MFs). The main contribution of this model is its use of an objective function that minimises the weighted-additive summation of the normalised deviations; thus, the model can adopt any minimisation process from any goal programming (GP) variant. The advantages of this FGP-MCGP (fuzzy GP – multi-choice GP) model are shown by using it to solve a numerical example from F-MODM (fuzzy MODM) literature and comparing the results with those of a recent FP-MCGP (fuzzy programming – multi-choice GP) study. The application of the model is also verified using real data (i.e., it can model and support renewable energy site selection (RESS) where the decision context is imprecise). As WA-FMCGP is largely a MODM model, through its application, this study also provides a supplementary method in contrast to the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) model applications used thus far for RESS.

Keywords: Fuzzy Goal Programming; Multi-choice goal programming; Weighted goal programming; Imprecise goals; Renewable energy planning; Civil engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.009

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