Evaluation of Factors to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic Using DEMATEL and Fuzzy Rule-Based Techniques

Abstract

Since social and environmental conditions have changed dramatically in recent years, the spectrum of diseases caused by infections is also evolving rapidly. The outspread of COVID-19 has resulted in an emergency situation across the globe with significant effects on the population's lives, families, and societies, leading to concerns the World Health Organization. Accordingly, the virus has substantially threatened the Malaysians' public health and contributed considerably to increased healthcare expenses. Since the novel coronavirus was found in China, Malaysia's government has started its actions according to the World Health Organization procedures and concentrated on addressing and preventing the spread of the infection. The present paper aims to find and evaluate the factors to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia, limiting the outspread of the disease in this country. This study used the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Fuzzy Rule-Based techniques to evaluate the factors through a set of questionnaires completed by the health care professionals. According to the data analysis results, movement control order, international travel restrictions, and the mass gathering cancellations were of most importance in the prevention of COVID-19 infections transmission.

Emerging technologies for the management of COVID19: A review

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“… Delivery of ✗ ✓ ✗ [75] masks, face shiels within shortest period of time. ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ Fuzzy Tecnique [76] -q-RLDFWA -q-RLDFOWA -q-RLDFWG -q-RLDFOWG Addressing decision making during emergency situations ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ [61] -Fuzzy set -centroid A system propsed for management ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ Data Visualization [77] -Positive -Neutral -Negative Sentiment analysis during panedemic. ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ [78] -Big data -Virtual reality -3D scanning Identifying role of AI, IoT and Robotics in battle against pandemic.…”

Risk assessment approach for analyzing risk factors to overcome pandemic using interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy decision making method

“…Thus, the constructed model is appropriate for enhancing the quality of decisions by offering capability to represent complex and vague information. To the best knowledge of authors, in the literature there are only a few studies to evaluate and rank risk factors for the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in general, specifically using Fuzzy MCDM models [11] , [12] , [13] . Thus, there are very few studies in the literature that can help governments in this regard.…”

A Hybrid Spherical Fuzzy MCDM Approach to Prioritize Governmental Intervention Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Vietnam

“…In fact, the solutions employed thus far are insufficient to address the COVID-19 issue, as several examples of individuals encountering serious challenges of various types have occurred. All nations require a more thorough and robust plan of action that considers the multiple criteria affected during a pandemic [30].…”