Creating a common priority vector in intuitionistic fuzzy AHP: a comparison of entropy-based and distance-based models

Szabolcs Duleba (), Ahmad Alkharabsheh () and Fatma Kutlu Gündoğdu ()
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Szabolcs Duleba: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Ahmad Alkharabsheh: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Fatma Kutlu Gündoğdu: National Defense University, Turkish Air Force Academy

Annals of Operations Research, 2022, vol. 318, issue 1, No 7, 163-187

Abstract: Abstract In the case of conflicting individuals or evaluator groups, finding the common preferences of the participants is a challenging task. This statement also refers to Intuitionistic Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process models, in which uncertainty of the scoring of individuals is well-handled, however, the aggregation of the modified scores is generally conducted by the conventional way of multi-criteria decision-making. This paper offers two options for this aggregation: the relatively well-known entropy-based, and the lately emerged distance-based aggregations. The manuscript can be considered as a pioneer work by analyzing the nature of distance-based aggregation under a fuzzy environment. In the proposed model, three clearly separable conflicting groups are examined, and the objective is to find their common priority vector, which can be satisfactory to all participant clusters. We have tested the model results on a real-world case study, on a public transport development decision-making problem by conducting a large-scale survey involving three different stakeholder groups of transportation. The comparison of the different approaches has shown that both entropy-based and distance-based techniques can provide a feasible solution based on their high similarity in the final ordinal and cardinal outcomes.

Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy AHP; Group decision-making; Preference aggregation; Entropy-based aggregation; Distance-based aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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