a state-of the-art survey & testbed of fuzzy ahp (fahp) applications

A state-of the-art survey & testbed of Fuzzy AHP (FAHP) applications

Kubler, S. Robert, J., Derigent, W., Voisin, A., Le Traon, Y.

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PreferencesKnowledge

Uncertain

Vague

Fuzzy Logic MCDM (e.g., FAHP)

Zadeh, L.A. (1971). Quantitative fuzzy semantics.

Information sciences, 3(2), pp.159-176.

What is Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) ?

Decision-makerVan Laarhoven, P.J.M. and Pedrycz, W. (1983).

A fuzzy extension of Saaty's priority theory. Fuzzy sets and Systems, 11(1-3), pp.229-241.


• A state-of the-art survey of FAHP application papers is carried out (190 papers are reviewed);

• Papers are classified based on the identified: Application area, Theme, Year, Country, etc.;

• Papers are summarised in various tabular formats and charts to help readers to extract quick and meaningful information;

• Results & Findings are made available through an online (free) testbed, making one or more fuzzy pairwise comparison matrices (FPCMs), from all papers, available for download.

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Summary

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Number of articles reviewed per year



Methods

• ScienceDirect: 64% • Springer: 14% • Taylor & Francis: 10% • Emerald: 3% • IEEE: 2% • Hindawi Publish. Corp.: 2%

Library databases used to identify relevant scientific (FAHP) application papers

In total, 190 journal papers have been reviewed and classified

Ignored items: • Textbooks • conference

proceeding • Doctoral dissertations • Master’s theses • unpublished papers • …

Classification of the reviewed papers on the basis of the following criteria: • Year of Publication • Application area: Personal, Social, Manufacturing, Political,

Engineering, Education, Industry, Government, Others (e.g. sports…) • Theme: Selection, Evaluation, Benefit-Cost analysis, Resource

allocations, Priority, Decision-making • Other tools: list of tools combined with FAHP such as QFD, TOPSIS,

Genetic Algorithm, and so forth (see next slides - “Result” section); • Journal: name of the journal in which the paper was published • Country: country where the study was being conducted.

Benefit-Cost (6)

Decision-Making

(25)Develop-

ment

(16)

Selection

(64)

Priority

(26)

Resource-Allocation

(8)

Evaluation

(45)

Personal (5)

Social(18)

Manufacturing

(43)

Political

(9)

Engineering(24)

Education(13)

Industry

(43)

Government

(25)

Others(16)

Conclusion, Discussion & Findingssee next slides (Results)


Results

Personal (5)

Social(18)

Manufacturing

(43)

Political

(9)

Engineering(24)

Education(13)

Industry

(43)

Government

(25)

Others(16)

Benefit-Cost (6)

Decision-Making

(25)Develop-

ment

(16)

Selection

(64)

Priority

(26)

Resource-Allocation

(8)

Evaluation

(45)

Theme-wise Application area-wise

Specific distribution of the reviewed papers arranged (i) Theme-wise & (ii) Application area-wise


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Building-related studiesE16, E19, M12, P13

D11, D13Car-related

studies

S20, S57, E4, E35, E33, E37, D9Healthcare-related studies

S13, S22, S30, S36, E3, E43Waste management-

related studiesS26

Sport-relatedstudies

M5, M19, P5Bridge-related

studies

S34, B2, M7, M20Agriculture-related

studies

E36, M23Train & Subwayrelated-studies

S5, S8, S31, E26, P8, P11P12, P14, P20, R3, R8Energy & Power Plant-

related studies

Ocean & Shipping-related studies

S1, S10, S16, S39, S55E7, E11, E13, P4, P9

Plane-related studiesE9, P18

Government-related studiesS18, S24, S29, S42, E24

E20, E30, E41, E44, P10, P23M11, M13, M21, M22, B1

Industry &Manufacturing-related studies

S14, S15, S19, S21, S35S43, S46, S59, S60, S63

Robot &Machine-related studies

S3, S25, S44, S50, S56E27

ERP System-related studies

S9, S62, S7, S41, M17P1, P6, P19, R4

Maintenance-related studies

E1, E6, E10, E15, E22M9, D1, D4, P3, P16

CO2Environment-related studies

S46, S64, M3, M6, M8, M16, M18, M25D2, D5, D6, D8, D10, D12, D14, D15, D16

P2, P17, P25, P26, R5, R6, R7, B5, B6

Project mgmt-related studies

S2, S4, S6, S11, S12, S17, S23, S27, S32, S38S40, S45, S47, S49, S51, S54, S58, S61, B3, D3

Supplier-related studies

S28, S52, E18, E21, E23, E28, E29, E32, E39E40, E45, M1, M2, M4, M10, M24, P15

P24, D7, R1 (Other Industry-related studies

Education-related studiesE2, E5, E8, E12, E14

E25, E34, E38, M15, R2

Tourism-related studies

E31, M14

Shopping-related studies

S53

Banking-relatedstudies

S33, E17, E42, B4

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ResultsPaper classification according to their application focus

(cf. article to identified what identifiers correspond to what papers )


ResultsList of Country-wise arranged reviewed papers +

Assessment of the Chang’s extent analysis popularity

Country-wise

Rank Country N %1 Turkey 48 25.0%2 Iran 29 15.1%3 Taiwan 21 10.9%4 China 17 8.9%5 India 14 7.3%

6Korea 6 3.1%Malaysia 6 3.1%Canada 6 3.1%

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UK 5 2.6%Italy 5 2.6%USA 5 2.6%Serbia 5 2.6%

8 Australia 3 1.6%

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Bangladesh 2 1.0%Chile 2 1.0%Denmark 2 1.0%Japan 2 1.0%Spain 2 1.0%Vietnam 2 1.0%Thailand 2 1.0%

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Brazil 1 0.5%France 1 0.5%Greece 1 0.5%Morocco 1 0.5%Netherlands 1 0.5%Philippines 1 0.5%Poland 1 0.5%Saudi Arabia 1 0.5%

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Distribution of papers using Chang’s extent analysis

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Papers that DO consider/use Chang’s extent analysis

Papers that DO NOT consider/use Chang’s extent analysis !Asia is the

“torchbearer”


Paper classification on the basis of “Other Tools” (integrated with FAHP) with respect to the identified “Themes”

(cf. article to identified what identifiers correspond to what papers )

Results

Selection Evaluation Benefit-Cost Res. Allocation Development Priority Decision-making(AN)FIS R5 M3

ANP S34, S45, S27, S30,S19, S21, S15, S8,S12, S58

E39, E27, E19, E4,E7

D2 P18, P2 M6

BSC S56 B3, B4COPRAS E24, E34 S41

DEA S49, S11 S28Delphi S14, S4 E10 D3, D2 P13 M14

DEMATEL S12 E32 D3ELECTRE S22 E9

FA/FR S37FMEA D2 P6, P19

GA S38GRA E30, S15, E14

(L)FPP E28, M4 B1LP S40 R4

Max-Min S1 R7MRA M19

(MS)GP E3 S46 D14NN S48

PROMETHEE S35, S24 D7QFD D2, D3, D9, D8,

D13, D11, D16, D6,D1, D14

D7

RS-FAHP P22SWOT S56 P9, P2

(F)TOPSIS S43, S39, S59, S31,S32, S23, S25, S26,S53, S42, S49, S54,S29, S6, S3, S4, S2,S7, S13, S1, S58

E14, E33, E43, E41,E18, E17, E42, E20,E30, E10

B4, B5 R6, R4 D4, D10 P25, P18, P13, P12,P1

S52, M21, M15,M24, M12, M18,M1, P24, M10

TRIZ D12VIKOR S14, S47 E20, E14, E4 B4 P6


Conclusion — Online FAHP TestbedOnline Testbed enabling to (i) Access the state-of-the-art survey’s results and paper-related URLs; (ii) Download Fuzzy Pairwise Comparison Matrices (FPCMs) files (.mat) and paper-related BibTeX.

Testbed’s URL: http://fahptestbed.sntiotlab.lu/

Available filters to ‘Sort’ & ‘Download’ a group of papers (BibTeX) or FPCMs (.mat)

‘Download’ all or a subset of papers/matrices

Dynamic graphs and pie charts according to the filters’ setting

A total of 254 FPCMs from 180 papers (out of the 192 reviewed) have been collected and made available through the online testbed.

This histogram shows the distribution of the 254 FPCMs according to their respective size; FPCMs whose size is >10x10 (up to 20×20) are summed together under the ≥ 10 × 10 x-label.



Conclusion• FAHP is used primarily in the Manufacturing, Industry & Government sectors;

• Asia is the torchbearer in this field, where FAHP is mostly applied for Selection & Evaluation;

• a significant amount of research papers (43% of the reviewed literature) combine FAHP with other tools, particularly with TOPSIS, QFD and ANP;

• The journals from which the highest number of papers have been integrated to our state-of-the-art survey are: (1) Expert Systems with Applications; (2) Applied Soft Computing; (3) Journal of Cleaner Production; (4) International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology;

• Chang’s extent analysis is still the most popular FPCMs’ weight derivation method, used in 57% of the reviewed literature, and this despite of a number of criticisms in recent years.

http://fahptestbed.sntiotlab.lu/ We believe that the online FAHP testbed can serve as a ready reference for different categories of end-users, such as for:

• Researchers - Scholars: to help them identifying relevant scientific papers (e.g., looking at a specific theme, area…) when writing FAHP-related state-of-the art chapters; and offer the possibility to download more than 250 triangular FPCMs when carrying out scientific analyses;

• Reviewers - editors: to help them evaluating the novelty and relevance of future research papers submitted in this field.
