The evaluation of tourism destination competitiveness by TOPSIS &amp; information entropy – A case in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Zhang, Hong; Gu, Chaolin; Gu, Luwen; Zhang, Yan

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2010.02.007

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“…The term "entropy" meaning disorder, was first posed by Rudolf Clausius in 1865 in the field of thermodynamics and by Claude Shannon in 1978 in the ICT field (Zhang, et al, 2010). After Shannon expressed the entropy of information in his article "Mathematical Theory of Communication", it was extensively used afterwards in different fields such as engineering, management and so on (Wu & Zhang, (2011)).…”

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A Study of the Factors Affecting the Development of the Portfolio of Products of the Iranian Top Pharmaceutical Companies Using Promethee Method

Shahmohammadi¹,

Khanaposhtani²

2016

MJSS

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Section: Entropy Methodsmentioning

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A Study of the Factors Affecting the Development of the Portfolio of Products of the Iranian Top Pharmaceutical Companies Using Promethee Method

Shahmohammadi¹,

Khanaposhtani²

2016

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“…There are a lot of methods in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), Entropy and TOPSIS are two commonly-used methods to rank and pick from the alternatives through Euclidean distance measurement (Zhang, Gu, Gu & Zhang, 2011).…”

Section: Analysis Methodsmentioning

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Evaluation of social media channel preference for student engagement improvement in universities using entropy and TOPSIS method

Meyliana

Hidayanto

Budiardjo

2015

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: To analyze students' social media preference in order to improve student engagement with university by examining social media implementation quality in terms of information and service quality.Design/methodology/approach: Research methodology is started with the hierarchy creation of student engagement with university which then translated into questionnaire. This questionnaire was distributed to 58 universities in Jakarta (Indonesia's capital). The questionnaire result was analyzed with entropy and TOPSIS method. Findings:In social media implementation quality, information quality is more important than service quality because in social media, a good information quality is really relevant with the usefulness and comprehensiveness of the information. On the other hand regarding service quality, the system availability will help students in their interaction process with university, on top of the service's efficiency and fulfillment. This directly impacts the cooperation between students, active learning process, and students' expectation. The social medias students preferred to improve student engagement with universities respectively are LINE, Facebook, Twitter, Wiki, Blog, Instagram, YouTube, Path, LinkedIn, and Podcast.-1676-Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management -http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1652Research limitations/implications: Social media's role is not only to create student engagement in the learning process, but also other aspects included by Chickering & Gamson (1987). Practical implications:The Social CRM channel shift from electronic into social media shows that social media holds an important role for university since it eases up the communication between university and the students. The good social media management has been an issue that needs to be solved by university by creating a unit or delegate a person that can manage the social media correctly and quickly so the students feel that they get the good service they want.Originality/value: The other researches focus on observing social media influence to improve student engagement, but only in the context of learning process. This research observes social media roles in student engagement thoroughly according to the existing good practice. This research can also shows the order of social media that are seen important to create student engagement.

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“…The positive-ideal solution is a solution that maximizes the benefit criteria and minimizes the cost criteria, whereas the negative-ideal solution maximizes the cost criteria and minimizes the benefit criteria [45]. In literature, there have been a large number of studies using TOPSIS for the solution of complex decision-making problems ( [2][3][4]24,25,41,48,49]). For this present study, the procedure of TOPSIS can be expressed in following steps:…”

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A hybrid decision support model using axiomatic fuzzy set theory in AHP and TOPSIS for multicriteria route selection

Singh

2018

Complex Intell. Syst.

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This paper presents a hybrid decision support model aimed to help the travelers in selecting best route among multiple alternatives. The proposed model consists of three parts: (i) analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine relative importance of route attributes, (ii) axiomatic fuzzy set (AFS) theory for description of alternative routes, and (iii) technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)-based final selection. TOPSIS methodology is used to determine ranking order of alternative routes in multicriteria decision situations. In TOPSIS, the alternative routes are described using AFS theory to normalize the decision matrix for consistent rating of routes over attributes. The main advantage of the developed model is that it copes inconsistency caused by both, different types of fuzzy numbers and normalization methods. An illustrative example of route selection is presented to better understand the hybrid methodological process. A comparative analysis with an established multicriteria decision-making technique shows the effectiveness and validity of the hybrid model for route selection.

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The evaluation of tourism destination competitiveness by TOPSIS & information entropy – A case in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Cited by 384 publications

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A Study of the Factors Affecting the Development of the Portfolio of Products of the Iranian Top Pharmaceutical Companies Using Promethee Method

A Study of the Factors Affecting the Development of the Portfolio of Products of the Iranian Top Pharmaceutical Companies Using Promethee Method

Evaluation of social media channel preference for student engagement improvement in universities using entropy and TOPSIS method

A hybrid decision support model using axiomatic fuzzy set theory in AHP and TOPSIS for multicriteria route selection

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