Vertex method for computing functions of fuzzy variables
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Multi-attribute decision making: dominance with respect to an importance order of the attributes
Applied Mathematics and Computation - Special issue on multicriterion decision making with engineering applications
Application of a hybrid intelligent decision support model in logistics outsourcing
Computers and Operations Research
Pre-operative ordering of minimally invasive surgical tools: A fuzzy inference system approach
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Product evaluation and development process using a fuzzy compromise-based goal programming approach
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology - Fuzzy theory and technology with applications
A fuzzy decision support system for digital camera selection based on user preferences
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A new approach for multiobjective decision making based on fuzzy distance minimization
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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This paper provides a new multi-objective decision making (MODM) method. The method was developed by extending two known approaches: "fuzzy composite programming" and "multi-attribute decision making with dominance in the attributes". The method allows the inclusion of a fuzzy representation of uncertainty relative to the information used through the decision making process. In this way the decision-maker is able to incorporate ambiguity and imprecision, which are common to most of the decision problems. The new methodology also addresses the ambiguity surrounding the relative importance of objectives. Thus, in the decision making process the decision-maker is not required to assign specific weights to the objectives to indicate their relative importance. Only a precedence order in the objectives becomes necessary to achieve a ranking in the alternatives. The MODM was applied to assess six management alternatives for the karstic aquifer management problem presented by previous authors. The design alternatives were evaluated against six objectives, which were grouped in three principal criteria: "Environmental", "Economic", and "Water Quality". The method was also evaluated in light of existing methods. It was demonstrated that, as a distance-based method, the new methodology preserves the characteristics of fuzzy composite programming but, at the same time allows the decision-maker flexibility in the assignment of relative importance between objectives.