scholarly journals Multi-Criteria Analysis of Design Solutions in Architecture and Engineering: Review of Applications and a Case Study

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Ogrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Topsis Technique

The primary goal of this paper is to present the application potential of MCDM/MCDA (multi-criteria decision-making/multi-criteria decision analysis) methods in the field of architecture and urban planning and in energy efficient construction, especially in the context of sustainable development paradigm. The first part of this paper is devoted to literature studies pertaining to multi-criteria decision-making support in the selected fields. On the basis of the delivered review, it was demonstrated that the most popular methods belonging to the MCDM/MCDA group that have been used so far for the purpose of resolving selected decision-making challenges, is the AHP (analytic hierarchy process) method with modifications, TOPSIS (technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution) method, as well the up-and-coming COPRAS (complex proportional assessment) method. In addition, by reviewing the literature, it was found that MCDM/MCDA methods constitute an effective support tool at the stage of evaluating and selecting project solutions, and are especially helpful in framing various social, economic, environmental criteria that are permanently linked to the rule of sustainable development. The empirical section of this paper, through a case study, presents a comparative analysis of the classical AHP method with its extension onto fuzzy sets. The case study pertained to the criteria for the location of single-family residential buildings with solar installations.

Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Its Application to E-Marketplace Selection

2013 ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beyza Ahlatcioglu Ozkok ◽  
Elisa Pappalardo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Multi Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Electronic Parts ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Making decisions is a part of daily life. The nature of decision-making includes multiple and usually conflicting criteria. Multi Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problems are handled under two main headings: Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) and Multi Objective Decision Making (MODM). Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a widely used multi-criteria decision making approach and has successfully been applied to many practical problems. Traditional AHP requires exact or crisp judgments (numbers). However, due to the complexity and uncertainty involved in real world decision problems, decision makers might be more reluctant to provide crisp judgments than fuzzy ones. Furthermore, even when people use the same words, individual judgments of events are invariably subjective, and the interpretations that they attach to the same words may differ. This is why fuzzy numbers and fuzzy sets have been introduced to characterize linguistic variables. Here, the authors overview the most known fuzzy AHP approaches and their application, and they present a case study to select an e-marketplace for a firm, which produces and sells electronic parts of computers in Turkey.

Optimal Location of Sub-Station Using Q-GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabbir Uddin ◽  
Sandeep Chakravorty ◽  
Amitava Ray ◽  
Karma Sonam Sherpa
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Solution Method ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Optimal Location ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Order Preference ◽  
Topsis Technique ◽  
Strength Of Association ◽  
Selection Of

In this article, methodologies have been proposed for site selection of sub-station considering technical and non-technical constraints. Firstly, a systematic frame has been developed considering various factors that influence the optimal location of the sub-station. Various factors considered are evaluated using DEMATEL-QFD. An evaluation has been done between the outcome of the TOPSIS (Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution) method and the COPRAS (Compressed Proportional Assessment) method. Finally, Spearman rank co-relation co-efficients indicates the strength of association of both the methodologies. A case study is done using GIS to prove the justification of the methodologies to the applied area. The application of the methodologies will help the decision maker improve the plan, location and grid renovation of the distribution sub-stations.

scholarly journals A Novel Neutrosophic Data Analytic Hierarchy Process for Multi-Criteria Decision Making Method: A Case Study in Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 53687-53697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Jun Yi Tey ◽  
Yee Fei Gan ◽  
Ganeshsree Selvachandran ◽  
Shio Gai Quek ◽  
Florentin Smarandache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Data Analytic

scholarly journals Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS multi-criteria decision analysis applied to the Indus Reservoir system in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1933-1949
Author(s):  
Shahmir Janjua ◽  
Ishtiaq Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Indus River ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Reservoir System ◽  
Weight Calculation

Abstract The ranking of the reservoirs in Pakistan is an important decision and it has a vital impact on the sustainability of the region and the economic operation of the reservoir. The reservoirs ranking is a vital problem which involves multi-criteria decision-making. The framework proposed in this paper involves the fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS method for the ranking of reservoirs in Pakistan. Potential feasible locations are identified from the Water and Power Development Authority, Pakistan. Weight calculation for the criteria is done by the fuzzy AHP method, which is a multi-criteria decision-making method. In order to model the fuzziness, equivocacy, incomplete knowledge and ambiguity, the fuzzy AHP is used. Furthermore, in order to rank the selected reservoirs based on their performance, the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is applied, which is a multicriteria decision making method. We demonstrate the application of the above-mentioned methods to the case study of the Indus Reservoir system in Pakistan. A decision support tool is provided for the decision makers in this paper to manage, evaluate and rank the planned reservoirs in the Indus River.

Evaluation the Environmental Awareness of Listed Companies by FAHP

2013 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 707-711
Author(s):  
Shou Ming Chen ◽  
Miao Bu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Listed Company ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Hierarchy Process

As an important component of corporate social responsibility, people pay more and more attention to enterprises environmental awareness, especially the listed company. Due to its multi-criteria nature, selecting a proper method involves an insight analysis among available multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques. Among numerous methods of MCDM, this paper presents a decision framework based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for evaluating the environmental awareness of listed companies. The applicability of the proposed approach is verified through a case study.

Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for the Location of Multi-Modal Terminals in an Integrated Public Urban Transport System

2019 ◽  
pp. 393-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Camargo-Pérez ◽  
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Criteria Importance

Multiple actors from both private and public sectors are currently involved in the design and operation of urban passenger transport systems seeking at optimizing their own objectives. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques actually aid this process. In this chapter, the authors consider the problem of locating multimodal terminals of an integrated public passenger transport system (IPPTS). A case study for the city of Bogota, Colombia is evaluated. Majority of works in MCDM does not explicitly justify the choice of the applied technique. This chapter applies three different techniques, AHP (analytic hierarchy technique), ELECTRE II (elimination and choice expressing the reality), and CRITIC (criteria importance through intercriteria correlation), to solve problem. A feature of this study is that traditional economic and logistic criteria are evaluated together with environmental and social criteria not previously evaluated in the literature. Numerical results show that each multi-criteria approach may prefer a different alternative, depending on the intrinsic behavior of each technique.

scholarly journals Evaluating Museum Virtual Tours: The Case Study of Italy

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Kabassi ◽  
Alessia Amelio ◽  
Vasileios Komianos ◽  
Konstantinos Oikonomou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Virtual tours in museums are an ideal solution for those that are not able to visit a museum or those who want to have a small taste of what is presented in the museum before their visit. However, these tours often encounter severe problems while users interact with them. In order to check the status of virtual tours of museums, we present the implementation of an evaluation experiment that uses a combination of two multi-criteria decision making theories, namely the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). AHP has been used for the estimation of the weights of the heuristics and fuzzy TOPSIS has been used for the evaluation of virtual tours of museums. This paper presents the exact steps that have to be followed in order to implement such an experiment and run an example experiment for virtual tours of Italian museums.

scholarly journals A Multi-Criteria Decision for Touristic Revitalization of Historic Waterfront Based on AHP Analysis: A Case Study of Ezbet El-Borg City, Damietta, Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1437-1448
Author(s):  
Ghada A. Ragheb ◽  
Amany Ragheb
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Ahp Method

This research finds an approach to support multi-criteria decision-making about the touristic revitalization of the waterfront for the purpose of conservation and sustainable development. The waterfront revitalization strategy is an effective way to preserve the neglected heritage, enhance identity and authenticity, and improve the quality of life. This paper presents a systematic multi-criteria approach and an analytical method in decision-making to revitalize the waterfront of Ezbet El-Borg city, Damietta, Egypt. The waterfront was analyzed according to the criteria of sustainable revitalization. The AHP method was used as an analytical tool to prioritize these criteria to make them measurable, and then suggest an effective strategy for revitalization through the prioritizing alternatives to waterfront functions then used to rank the best prospects for revitalization. The study found the most successful option is to revitalize the historic waterfront of Ezbet El Borg, due to its heritage features. This kind of revitalization plays an essential role in sustainability, as it enhances the city's identity, conservation opportunities, economic development, and quality of life. Applying this approach allows policymakers to develop strategies for waterfront revitalization, and to evaluate the best solutions for the revitalization process with regard to preservation and sustainable development.

Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Vulnerability Mapping of Flood Hazard: A Case Study of Pune City

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Nitin Mundhe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Very High Frequency ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
Natural Risk ◽  
The Town

Floods are natural risk with a very high frequency, which causes to environmental, social, economic and human losses. The floods in the town happen mainly due to human made activities about the blockage of natural drainage, haphazard construction of roads, building, and high rainfall intensity. Detailed maps showing flood vulnerability areas are helpful in management of flood hazards. Therefore, present research focused on identifying flood vulnerability zones in the Pune City using multi-criteria decision-making approach in Geographical Information System (GIS) and inputs from remotely sensed imageries. Other input data considered for preparing base maps are census details, City maps, and fieldworks. The Pune City classified in to four flood vulnerability classes essential for flood risk management. About 5 per cent area shows high vulnerability for floods in localities namely Wakdewadi, some part of the Shivajinagar, Sangamwadi, Aundh, and Baner with high risk.

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