Abstract
In this study, a fuzzy AHP-VIKOR method is presented to help decision makers (DMs), especially physicians, evaluate and rank intervention strategies for influenza. Selecting the best intervention strategy is a sophisticated multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem with potentially competing criteria. Two fuzzy MCDM methods, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) and fuzzy VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (F-VIKOR), are integrated to evaluate and rank influenza intervention strategies. In fuzzy AHP-VIKOR, F-AHP is used to determine the fuzzy criteria weights and F-VIKOR is implemented to rank the strategies with respect to the presented criteria. A case study is given where a professor of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology, an internal medicine physician, an ENT physician, a family physician, and a cardiologist in Turkey act as DMs in the process.
Highlights
Introduction e2009 A(H1N1) influenza pandemic caused a global alert, and all countries implemented various intervention strategies
W criteria (w 1, w 2, . . . , w n) determined with fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) is used in fuzzy VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (F-VIKOR) to rank intervention alternatives
There does not appear to be a MCDA in the literature for the evaluation of influenza intervention strategies
Summary
Wn) (approximate crisp criteria weights) is calculated by averaging the entries on each row of normalized X. After the determination of w criteria with F-AHP, in order to rank the alternatives, F-VIKOR is used. During the process of evaluation of alternatives with F-VIKOR, the linguistic terms and scale presented in Table 3 is used. The fuzzy MCDM problem with m alternatives that are evaluated in terms of n criteria can be expressed in a fuzzy. If Condition 1 is not accepted and Q(A(m)) − Q(A(1)) < DQ, A(m) and A(1) are the same compromise solution. If Condition 2 is not accepted, the stability of decision-making is deficient A(1) has a comparative advantage. Compromise solutions A(1) and A(2) are same [51, 64, 65]
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