Software Tool Implementing the Fuzzy AHP Method in Ecological Risk Assessment

Radionovs Andrejs () and Užga-Rebrovs Oļegs ()
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Užga-Rebrovs Oļegs: Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Rezekne, Latvia

Information Technology and Management Science, 2017, vol. 20, issue 1, 34-39

Abstract: Due to the increased spread of invasive animals and plants in the territory of Latvia, the necessity of ecological risk assessment related to such kind of spread has grown lately. In cases with sufficient statistical data, the risk assessment may be successfully performed on the basis of statistical methods. The amount of statistical data in the context of spread of invasive animals and plants is pretty poor; therefore, the only method of ecological risk assessment remains subjective judgements of experts. The present paper proposes using a programming tool for ecological risk analysis elaborated by the authors. With the help of this programming tool the method of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process is implemented. The elements of the pairwise comparison matrix are allowed to be expressed by triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy sets. The presented tool makes it possible to design the fuzzy pair-wise comparison matrix and process the results in a user-friendly way.

Keywords: FAHP; fuzzy logic; fuzzy representation of knowledge; risk assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/itms-2017-0006

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