Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS, cilt.38, sa.7, ss.855-865, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The alpha-Discounting Method was developed to be an alternative to and extension of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to solve multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems with non-commensurable and conflicting criteria. In contrast to the AHP, this method works not only for pairwise comparisons but also for n-wise comparisons if relative importance of criteria can be expressed in a system of linear homogenous equations. This method also has a comparative advantage as it can transform those MCDM problems, classified as inconsistent by the AHP, into a consistent form. This study briefly compares the two methods and then develops the Fuzzy -Discounting Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (F-DM MCDM). Two illustrative fuzzy MCDM problems from the literature have been solved to show how the F-DM MCDM works.