Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 7-8, Pages 839-844Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-004-2436-5
Keywords
decision-making; plant location selection; TOPSIS; triangular fuzzy number
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The selection of plant location plays a very important role in minimizing cost and maximizing the use of resources for many companies. In this paper, a new TOPSIS approach for selecting plant location under linguistic environments is presented, where the ratings of various alternative locations under various criteria, and the weights of various criteria are assessed in linguistic terms represented by fuzzy numbers. To avoid complicated fuzzy arithmetic operations, the linguistic variables, which are represented by triangular fuzzy numbers, are transformed into crisp numbers based on graded mean representation. The canonical representation of multiplication operations on triangular fuzzy numbers is used to obtain the positive ideal solution and the negative ideal solution. The closeness efficient is defined to determine the ranking order of all alternatives by calculating the distance to both the positive-ideal solution and the negative-ideal solution simultaneously. Compared with existing fuzzy TOPSIS methods, the proposed method can deal with group decision-making problems in a more efficient manner. A numerical example of plant location selection is used to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
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