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A Pre-aggregation Fuzzy Collaborative Intelligence-based Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach for Selecting Alternative Suppliers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Version 1 : Received: 1 December 2020 / Approved: 2 December 2020 / Online: 2 December 2020 (14:10:13 CET)

How to cite: Chen, T.; Wu, H.-C. A Pre-aggregation Fuzzy Collaborative Intelligence-based Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach for Selecting Alternative Suppliers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprints 2020, 2020120065. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202012.0065.v1 Chen, T.; Wu, H.-C. A Pre-aggregation Fuzzy Collaborative Intelligence-based Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach for Selecting Alternative Suppliers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprints 2020, 2020120065. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202012.0065.v1

Abstract

In the existing group decision-making fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) methods, the consensus among experts has rarely been fully reached. To fill this gap, in this study, a pre-aggregation fuzzy collaborative intelligence (FCI)-based FAHP approach is proposed. In the proposed pre-aggregation FCI-based FAHP approach, fuzzy intersection is applied to aggregate experts’ pairwise comparison results if these pairwise comparison results overlap. The aggregation result is a matrix of polygonal fuzzy numbers. Subsequently, alpha-cut operations are applied to derive the fuzzy priorities of criteria from the aggregation result. The pre-aggregation FCI-based FAHP approach has been applied to select suitable alternative suppliers for a wafer foundry in Taiwan amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The experimental results revealed that the pre-aggregation FCI-based FAHP approach significantly reduced the uncertainty inherent in the decision-making process by deriving fuzzy priorities with very narrow ranges.

Keywords

group decision-making; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; consensus; wafer foundry; COVID-19 pandemic

Subject

Social Sciences, Decision Sciences

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