Evaluating Tactical Missile Systems by Using Fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS Technique

Abstract

Evaluating tactical missile systems is a complex system of interacting elements. For example, a good missile system requests good missile performance and minimal cost; the performance and cost depend on improvement of science and technology and economic resources; technology depends on ideas and resources; ideas depend on politics for their acceptance and support; and so on. In such an intricate network of factors, first causes and then final effects cannot be identified easily. These factors directly depend on the expectations of the decision-maker, and on additional complex subfactors, etc. In the complex system, our minds have not yet evolved to the point where we can clearly see these ultimate relationships and readily resolve important issues. Evaluating tactical missile systems is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. This paper presents an evaluation model based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) in a fuzzy environment where the vagueness and subjectivity are handled with linguistic values parameterized by triangular fuzzy numbers. The AHP is used to analyze the structure of systems evaluating and to determine weights of the criteria, and fuzzy TOPSIS method is used to obtain final ranking.