Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences
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Journal

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences


Volume
& Issue

Volume 5, Issue 1


Published
on

April 10, 2020


Pages

461-474


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Article

Evaluation of Investment Opportunities With Interval-Valued Fuzzy Topsis Method

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Authors

Naiyer Mohammadi Lanbaran Affiliation:
Atatürk University Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics
, Ercan Celik Affiliation:
Atatürk University Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics,
and Muhammed Yiğider Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Erzurum Technical University


Abstract

The purpose of this study is extended the TOPSIS method based on interval-valued fuzzy set in decision analysis. After the introduction of TOPSIS method by Hwang and Yoon in 1981, this method has been extensively used in decision-making, rankings also in optimal choice. Due to this fact that uncertainty in decision-making and linguistic variables has been caused to develop some new approaches based on fuzzy-logic theory. Indeed, it is difficult to achieve the numerical measures of the relative importance of attributes and the effects of alternatives on the attributes in some cases. In this paper to reduce the estimation error due to any uncertainty, a method has been developed based on interval-valued fuzzy set. In the suggested TOPSIS method, we use Shannon entropy for weighting the criteria and apply the Euclid distance to calculate the separation measures of each alternative from the positive and negative ideal solutions to determine the relative closeness coefficients. According to the values of the closeness coefficients, the alternatives can be ranked and the most desirable one(s) can be selected in the decision-making process.


Keywords

Multi-Criteria decision making, Fuzzy logic theory, Interval-Valued Fuzzy TOPSIS Analysis, Euclid distance, Shannon Entropy, 03E72


Citation

Lanbaran, N. M., Celik, E., & Yiğider, M. (2020). Evaluation of investment opportunities with interval-valued fuzzy topsis method. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 5(1), 461–474. https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2020.1.00044

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