Journal
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103578
Keywords
Bid evaluation; Multiple-criteria decision support; Construction management; ELECTRE III; Generalized comparative linguistic expressions
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71801175, 71871171, 71971182, 72031009]
- Themebased Research Projects of the Research Grants Council [T32101/15R]
- Spanish Government Project [PGC2018099402BI00]
- City University of Hong Kong SRG [7004969]
- [RyC201721978]
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The paper develops a novel ELECTRE III-based MCGDM approach using generalized comparative linguistic expressions to evaluate bidder performance. It transforms GCLEs into HFLTSs to facilitate the qualitative construction of individual expertise and introduces a consensus-reaching process to promote decisions agreed upon by experts. An integrated subjective-objective approach is proposed to calculate criterion weights and implement an ELECTRE III-based method to handle uncertainties in alternative-criterion decision appraisals when evaluating bids.
The process of bid evaluation is subject to indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty in terms of their alternative-criterion decision appraisals. To address this issue, this paper develops a novel ELECTRE III-based MCGDM approach for bid evaluation, in which generalized comparative linguistic expressions (GCLEs) are used to evaluate bidder performance. The collected GCLEs are further transformed into possibility-distributionbased hesitant fuzzy linguistic-term sets (HFLTSs) to facilitate the qualitative construction of individual expertise. A consensus-reaching process is introduced to promote decisions that are agreed upon by experts and thereby ensure an enhanced state of mutual agreement among the experts. Subsequently, an integrated subjective-objective approach is proposed to calculate criterion weights and to implement an ELECTRE III-based method that incorporates HFLTS possibility distributions, which allows us to treat the indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty embedded in appraisals of alternative-criterion decisions when evaluating bids. The potential advantages of the proposed approach are validated by a real-life contractor-selection case.
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