Systems development in information systems research
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue on management support systems
Fuzzy multiple criteria decision making: recent developments
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Special issue on fuzzy multiple criteria decision making
A course in fuzzy systems and control
A course in fuzzy systems and control
Fuzzy sets in approximate reasoning, Part 1: inference with possibility distributions
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
A fuzzy goal programming approach for vendor selection problem in a supply chain
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Operations Research
Application of Fuzzy Logic to Approximate Reasoning Using Linguistic Synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A decision support system for supplier selection based on a strategy-aligned fuzzy SMART approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Website structures ranking: applying extended ELECTRE III method based on fuzzy notions
FS'07 Proceedings of the 8th Conference on 8th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - Volume 8
An integrated fuzzy AHP-ELECTRE methodology for environmental impact assessment
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The ELECTRE multicriteria analysis approach based on Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Performance evaluation of competing forecasting models: A multidimensional framework based on MCDA
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Fuzzy UTASTAR: A method for discovering utility functions from fuzzy data
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Application of decision-making techniques in supplier selection: A systematic review of literature
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Extension of Fuzzy ELECTRE based on VIKOR method
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Any decision process deals with two different concerns as its cornerstones, evaluating the alternatives and ranking them based on their performances. In any decision process, the former phase is usually the premise of the latter one. Alternatives' evaluation is the concept that largely depends on the experts and their expertise, which increase uncertainty in the decision-making process. In addition to all proposed methods for having the experts' knowledge as evaluations of the alternatives, utilizing expert decision support systems (EDSS) can be a sensible response to such a need. Having evaluated the alternatives in the first phase of a decision-making process, the second phase of the process deals with the ranking the alternatives based on their performances obtained from the first phase. In this paper, we discuss the architecture of a fuzzy system including both modules, utilizing fuzzy concept for dealing with the uncertainty of the problem. Concerning the problem we had been dealt with, our system comprises a fuzzy evaluation module, which is a fuzzy expert system and an appropriate tool for evaluating the existing alternatives promptly and smoothly, without the imposed time delays by the experts to propose their comments and the uncertainty of such expertise-based comments, and a fuzzy ranking module, which is a fuzzy version of ELECTRE III method ranking the alternatives based on their outranking relations and by considering the existing uncertainty in their performances. This way the final ranking is resulted from an independent fuzzy system, which has considered the existing uncertainty in the evaluations not once but twice. Our proposed system has been applied to a real case of vendor selection process in one of the greatest and the most famous companies in the Iranian oil industry, OIEC, and the results are discussed.