Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 1-4, Pages 381-393Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-009-2205-6
Keywords
Simulation software; Software selection; Multi-criteria decision making; Fuzzy AHP
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Today, simulation has a broad range of applications from solving service problems to analyzing manufacturing problems such as warehousing and logistic systems. Simulation has become a popular methodology and selecting an appropriate simulation software package is one of the decisions that any industrial engineer may face at work. As a result, numerous types of simulation software packages have been developed for modeling simulation problems. The increasing variety of simulation software packages in the software market makes the selection of an appropriate simulation software package a critical decision. Selecting an inappropriate software package will be followed by many negative consequences. This paper will present a robust decision-making methodology based on Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) for evaluating and selecting the appropriate simulation software package. The robust decision method aggregates the experts' judgments for the criteria weights and the suitability of simulation software alternatives. The FAHP is used to prioritize and evaluate existing alternatives based on the proposed criteria for choosing the proper simulation software. The proposed methodology is applied to selecting the appropriate simulation software as an experiment and results are provided.
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