Paper Info
Title
Green Supplier Selection With a Continuous Interval-Valued Linguistic TODIM Method
Abstract
TODIM method (an acronym in Portuguese of Interactive and Multicriteria Decision Making) has attracted the attention of many scholars and achieved much success in multi-criteria decision making. Linguistic expression, as a qualitative information representation form, is much closer to human's cognition than specific numerical values. This paper combines the classical TODIM method with the continuous interval-valued linguistic term set to solve multi-criteria group decision-making problems. A distance measure of the continuous interval-valued linguistic term set is developed and then applied to develop a criteria-weighting method. In addition, the consensus level among experts are taken into account and an improved consensus reaching method is introduced to help experts reach an agreement. Subsequently, the framework of the continuous interval-valued linguistic TODIM method is introduced to show how to derive the optimal decision-making result with complicated and precise linguistic assessments in the qualitative situation. A case study concerning the green supplier selection for a food company is provided to verify the feasibility and practicality of the proposed method. Finally, the comparisons with other ranking methods are provided to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2937994
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multi-criteria decision making,continuous interval-valued linguistic term set,TODIM method,distance measure,group decision making,green supplier
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Song Nie100.34
Huchang Liao2160967.71
Xingli Wu3538.51
Zeshui Xu414310599.02