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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Solution for Convergence Problem in DEMATEL Method: DEMATEL of Finite Sum of Influences
Contributor:
Šmidovnik, Tjaša;
Grošelj, Petra
imprint:
MDPI AG, 2023
Published in:Symmetry
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3390/sym15071357
ISSN:
2073-8994
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) is one of the multicriteria decision-making methods based on asymmetric linguistic comparison matrices that has received a great deal of attention, and it is a widely used method in various fields. One of the drawbacks of DEMATEL is a convergence problem that may occur when the infinite sum of normalized influences does not converge. Based on the observations of some examples, the new concept of DEMATEL, the DEMATEL of a finite sum of influences (FSI DEMATEL), is proposed. Instead of an infinite sum, a finite sum of influences is used in FSI DEMATEL so that the convergence problem is avoided. The advantage is that FSI DEMATEL can handle more decision-making problems than the DEMATEL. It can also be used for fuzzy evaluations. FSI DEMATEL can be used as the multicriteria decision-making method to evaluate the relationships between the factors in many different fields.</jats:p>