scholarly journals A consumer-based textile quality scoring model using multi-criteria decision making

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 155892501985477
Author(s):  
Romain Benkirane ◽  
Sébastien Thomassey ◽  
Ludovic Koehl ◽  
Anne Perwuelz

In the clothing industry, the understanding of the quality is a major issue to well meet the customer needs. The dilemma that faces manufacturers is to find the balance between good quality and “overquality,” what the quality criteria are, and how to target requirements specifications. The aim of this study was to propose a multi-attribute ranking method of products. Ranking is based on an overall quality score. The quality score, here called consumer-based quality, is computed via the combination of textile testing and consumer perception to deterioration. Such a perception has been surveyed, and damage that can lead to end of life has been investigated. Collected data have been translated into a consumer sensitivity using multi-criteria decision making and fuzzy techniques. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process has been used. Five damage categories have been weighted. A selection of appropriate tests according to standards has been completed to test the product resistance to the damage. The tests results have been computed with the consumer sensitivity to obtain the consumer-based quality score. Finally, the ranking method is applied on T-shirts, and a single score ranking is made possible and objectively depict perceived quality.

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 465-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardalan Bafahm ◽  
Minghe Sun

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been believed to be one of the most pragmatic and widely accepted methods for multi-criteria decision making. However, there have been various criticisms of this method within the last four decades. In this study, the results of AHP contradicting common expectations are examined for both the distributive and ideal modes. Specifically, conflicting priorities, conflicting decisions, and conflicting preference relations are investigated. A decision-making scenario is used throughout the paper and an illustrative example constructed from the decision-making scenario is provided to demonstrate each of the conflicting results recommended by AHP. With a parametric formulation of each unexpected result, the possibility of unexpected results of AHP is generalized irrespective of applying the distributive or ideal mode. The logic and causes of these contradictions are also analyzed. This study shows that AHP is not always reliable, and could lead the decision makers towards incorrect decisions.


Author(s):  
Beyza Ahlatcioglu Ozkok ◽  
Elisa Pappalardo

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.


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 53687-53697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Jun Yi Tey ◽  
Yee Fei Gan ◽  
Ganeshsree Selvachandran ◽  
Shio Gai Quek ◽  
Florentin Smarandache ◽  
...  

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1370
Author(s):  
Chin-Tsai Lin ◽  
Ching-Chiang Yeh ◽  
Fan Ye

This study proposes a novel evaluation model for lawyer selection incorporating the lawyer’s backbone leadership attitude employing the hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. In the proposed approach, the lawyer’s backbone leadership attitude is employed as an evaluation factor in the evaluation model for lawyer selection from law firms’ perspective. In this paper, a hybrid approach based on the Delphi technique and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is proposed to manage qualitative and quantitative criteria for selecting the best alternative lawyer for law firms in China. Finally, a law firm in China is carried out to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach. Based on the result, the backbone leadership does provide valuable information in the evaluation model for lawyer selection. The results also revealed that the proposed approach would help law firms and human resource managers to understand and develop strategies to hire a lawyer.


2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 311-328
Author(s):  
N. S. M. Rezaur Rahman ◽  
Md. Abdul Ahad Chowdhury ◽  
Adnan Firoze ◽  
Rashedur M. Rahman

Choosing the best schools from a group of schools is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In this paper, we have represented a method that uses the fusion of two multi-criteria decision-making methods, Best–Worst Method (BWM) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to rank some of the user preferred alternatives. The system considers the choice of the user and the quality of the alternatives to rank them. User preferences on the criteria are taken as inputs in the form of best–worst comparison vectors to measure the choice of the user. These values are applied to calculate the numeric weights of each of the criteria. These weights reflect the preference of the user. A dataset of secondary schools in Bangladesh has been compiled and used for automatic quantitative pairwise comparison on the alternatives to calculate the score of each alternative in every criterion, which reflects its quality in that criterion. These scores are calculated using AHP. The weights of the criteria as well as the scores of these alternatives in those criteria are then used to calculate the final score of the alternatives and to rank them accordingly. An extensive experimental analysis and comparative study is reported at the end of this paper.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1351
Author(s):  
Rashad Aliyev ◽  
Hasan Temizkan ◽  
Rafig Aliyev

High competition between universities has been increasing over the years, and stimulates higher education institutions to attain higher positions in the ranking list. Ranking is an important performance indicator of university status evaluation, and therefore plays an essential role in students’ university selection. The ranking of universities has been carried out using different techniques. Main goal of decision processes in real-life problems is to deal with the symmetry or asymmetry of different types of information. We consider that multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is well applicable to symmetric information modelling. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a well-known technique of MCDM discipline, and is based on pairwise comparisons of criteria/alternatives for alternatives’ evaluation. Unfortunately, the classical AHP method is unable to deal with imprecise, vague, and subjective information used for the decision making process in complex problems. So, introducing a more advanced tool for decision making under such circumstances is inevitable. In this paper, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is applied for the comparison and ranking of performances of five UK universities, according to four criteria. The criteria used for the evaluation of universities’ performances are teaching, research, citations, and international outlook. It is proven that applying FAHP approach makes the system consistent, and by the calculation of coefficient of variation for all alternatives, it becomes possible to rank them in prioritized order.


2014 ◽  
Vol 988 ◽  
pp. 675-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Xin Liao ◽  
Eduardo Rocha Loures ◽  
Osíris Canciglieri ◽  
Hervé Panetto

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the widely accepted and frequently used priority assessment methods. A number of studies, which employed the AHP method, have already been carried out in different domains to support their multi-criteria decision-making definitions and applications. However, few researchers have paid attentions to extract and represent the important concepts and their relationships from the AHP method itself. The aim of this study is firstly to propose a way for representing the AHP method as an AHP Ontology together with a set of reasoning rules. Then, a prototype assessment tool is developed to show the possibility of obtaining more flexibility and reusability of this ontological representation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (122) ◽  
pp. 412-421
Author(s):  
Mohamed Naji Razooqee ◽  
Marwan Abdul Hameed Ashour

يهدف البحث الى حل مشكلة إختيار المشروع المناسب من عدة مشاريع خدمية لمؤسسة الشهداء العراقية أو ترتيبها حسب الافضلية ضمن المعايير المستهدفة من قبل متخذ القرار، يتم  ذلك عن طريق إستعمال احدى الطرق الكمية في اتخاد القرارات متعددة الأهداف (Multi Criteria Decision  Making)  ((MCDM الا وهي طريقة التحسين متعدد الأهداف حسب التحليل النسبي (Multi Objective Optimization by Ratios Analysis) ((MOORA لقياس الدرجة المركبة (composite score) للأداء  الذي يحصل عليه كل بديل وأقصى فائدة تعود على الجهة المستفيدة وحسب المعايير واوزانها التي يتم حسابها عن طريق عملية التسلسل الهرمي التحليلي (Analytic Hierarchy Process) ((AHP ، اهم النتائج التي توصل اليها البحث وبالأعتماد على رأي الخبراء هي إختيار المشروع الثاني كأفضل بديل وعمل ترتيب (Ranking) حسب الأداء والدرجة المركبة التي حصل عليها كل بديل ، كما توصل الباحثون الى امكانية تطبيق النموذج لحل مختلف مشاكل (MCDM) وخاصة في الحالات التي تكون فيها المعايير متضاربة في مزيد من البحوث.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1252-1261
Author(s):  
Christa Bire ◽  
Daniel Kasse ◽  
Rio Bire

The selection of tourist attractions is a multi-criteria decision making problem, which requires time and careful consideration to make the right decision. The proper destination selection based on human needs in a particular moment affects satisfaction in traveling. This research aims to create a decision support system for selecting tourist attractions (a case study in Kupang City) using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method. Users can input the priority scale of 9 human need attributes and then be directed to the system’s recommendations of tourist attractions. This paper also compares fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method with the original analytic hierarchy process calculations. The result shows that both methods can be a solution for multi-criteria decision making, but the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method performs a more optimal solution for cases with uncertainty in comparisons between elements.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 89-118
Author(s):  
Olha Izmailova ◽  
Hanna Krasovska ◽  
Kateryna Krasovska ◽  
Volodymyr Zaslavskyi

The article addresses the problem of estimating the expected losses of a bank when information security threats to functioning computer systems materialize. A scenario approach to solving the problem is developed based on multi-criteria decision-making methods, taking into account quantitative and qualitative indicators and expert assessment, and applying the analytic hierarchy process for comprehensive assessment of expected losses in probabilistic terms. That allows to take into account different levels of the hierarchy of criteria and the weight of their impact on the calculated results. The process of estimating the probability of materialization of various threats under accepted standards and situational conditions, the actions of the attacker and the consequences on the bank’s functioning is formalized. Expert assessments are grouped with control over the sufficiency of the degree of logic and dispersion of opinions of each expert, compliance with the established requirements for the degree of consistency of opinions of the group of experts, assessment and formalized consideration of the degree of their competence. The process of assessing expected losses is presented as a daily business process of the functioning of the bank’s security system.


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