An appropriate multiple criteria decision making method for solving electricity planning problems, addressing sustainability issue

a b s t r a c tMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods are widely used in various fields and disciplines. While most of the research has been focused on the development and improvement of new MCDA methods, relatively limited attention has been paid to their appropriate selection for the given decision problem. Their improper application decreases the quality of recommendations, as different MCDA methods deliver inconsistent results. The current paper presents a methodological and practical framework for selecting suitable MCDA methods for a particular decision situation. A set of 56 available MCDA methods was analysed and, based on that, a hierarchical set of methods' characteristics and the rule base were obtained. This analysis, rules and modelling of the uncertainty in the decision problem description allowed to build a framework supporting the selection of a MCDA method for a given decision-making situation. The practical studies indicate consistency between the methods recommended with the proposed approach and those used by the experts in reference cases. The results of the research also showed that the proposed approach can be used as a general framework for selecting an appropriate MCDA method for a given area of decision support, even in cases of data gaps in the decision-making problem description. The proposed framework was implemented within a web platform available for public use at www.mcda.it.Please cite this article as: J. W ątróbski et al., Generalised framework for multi-criteria method selection, Omega (2018), https://doi.

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“…Selection of methods, which have appropriate features to solve a given decision problem, out of 15 MCDA methods. [138] semiformal comparison…”

Section: Mcda Selectionmentioning

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Generalised framework for multi-criteria method selection

Wątróbski

Jankowski

Ziemba

et al. 2019

Omega

397

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“…Indicators should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound [7]. Indicators can support and guide the changes required to governments, international organizations, private sectors, NGOs and other major groups in sustainability [12].…”

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The Assessment of Sustainability Indicators in the Villagers’ Lives in Iran with Emphasis on Natural Hazards: A Case Study

Murgante¹,

Salmani²,

M³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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Natural hazards such as earthquakes take place around the world and when combined with human create natural disasters. Earthquake, as one of natural hazards, in recent years has caused the damage and the destruction of many rural areas with major losses in rural areas for the lack of sustainability in political, economic, social, physical and operational criteria. Thus, to overcome the damage caused by earthquakes in rural areas, the assessment of sustainability status seems necessary to plan and strengthen according to desirability of the status of sustainability indicators. This is a descriptive-analytical study; and data collection was conducted through field methods and questionnaires. To test the hypothesis, T statistical methods, correlation method and F-test were performed using SPSS software. The results of the study showed that villages were at a low and undesirable level under all aspects, except social index in terms of sustainability. Comparisons showed that there was a significant mean difference among villages in terms of sustainability. Also, the research concerns ranking of villages in terms of sustainability against earthquake hazard using multi-criteria decision methods. Finally, in order to improve sustainability indicators at the level of villages, some strategies were presented.

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“…Many studies have applied MCDM methods as a useful tool in energy planning (Tzeng et al 1992;Georgopoulou et al 1998;Pohekar and Ramachandran 2004;Loken 2007;Tsoutsos et al 2009;Kahraman et al 2010;Moghaddam et al 2011;Yeh and Huang 2014). For instance, in a study by Tsoutsos et al (2009), a set of energy alternatives were determined for different sources of energy on the island of Crete in Greece.…”

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Decision making under uncertainty using a qualitative TOPSIS method for selecting sustainable energy alternatives

Afsordegan

Sánchez

Agell

et al. 2016

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Multi-criteria decision-making methods support decision makers in all stages of the decision-making process by providing useful data. However, criteria are not always certain as uncertainty is a feature of the real world. MCDM methods under uncertainty and fuzzy systems are accepted as suitable techniques in conflicting problems that cannot be represented by numerical values, in particular in energy analysis and planning. In this paper, a modified TOPSIS method for multi-criteria group decision-making with qualitative linguistic labels is proposed. This method addresses uncertainty considering different levels of precision. Each decision maker's judgment on the performance of alternatives with respect to each criterion is expressed by qualitative linguistic labels. The new method takes into account linguistic data provided by the decision makers without any previous aggregation. Decision maker judgments are incorporated into the proposed method to generate a complete ranking of alternatives. An application in energy planning is presented as an illustrative case example in which energy policy alternatives are ranked. Seven energy alternatives under nine criteria were evaluated according to the opinion of three environmental and energy experts. The weights of the criteria are determined by fuzzy AHP, and the alternatives are ranked using qualitative TOPSIS. The proposed approach is compared with a modified fuzzy TOPSIS method, showing the advantages of the proposed approach when dealing with linguistic assessments to model uncertainty and imprecision. Although the new approach requires less cognitive effort to decision makers, it yields similar results.

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An appropriate multiple criteria decision making method for solving electricity planning problems, addressing sustainability issue

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Decision making under uncertainty using a qualitative TOPSIS method for selecting sustainable energy alternatives

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Decision making under uncertainty using a qualitative TOPSIS method for selecting sustainable energy alternatives

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