ranking fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in linguistic decision making and other fuzzy application systems. in spite of many ranking methods, no one can rank fuzzy numbers with human intuition consistently in all cases. shortcoming are found in some of the convenient methods for ranking triangular fuzzy numbers such as the coefficient of variation (cv index), distance between fuzzy set...

In the recent past, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has emerged as method of choice for resolving a wide range water-related conflicts that arise between governments and stakeholders all over globe. Despite variety regulations initiatives being put into place, there is still skepticism their actual execution. 2006, Philippine government began updating water policy regulatory framewo...

Many researchers have long observed some cases in which certain ranking irregularities can occur when the original analytic hierarchy process (AHP), or some of its variants, are used. This paper presents two new categories of ranking irregularities which defy common intuition. These ranking irregularities occur when one decomposes a decision problem into a set of smaller problems each defined o...

Ever since the birth of data envelopment analysis (DEA) the question of ranking the decision making units (DMUs) has been one of the focal points of research in the area. Among several other approaches, promising attempts have been made to marry DEA with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. Keeping the idea of using DEA-based pairwise comparisons between the DMUs, as proposed in some DE...

A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, as its own name suggests, is for use in situations when more than one criterion must be considered. In this work, we will focus on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of the well-known and most widely used MCDM approaches. Despite the extensive application of this method in various fields of decision making, AHP has been combined within unce...