PMID- 33562250
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240331
IS  - 1099-4300 (Electronic)
IS  - 1099-4300 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
DP  - 2021 Feb 7
TI  - A Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approach with a Complete User Friendly 
      Computer Implementation.
LID - 10.3390/e23020203 [doi]
LID - 203
AB  - The paper presents the generalization of the almost forty years of experience in 
      the field of setting and solving the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) 
      problems in various branches of a human activity under different types of 
      uncertainties that inevitably accompany such problems. Based only on the 
      pragmatic intentions, the authors avoid the detailed descriptions of the known 
      methods for the decision-making, while instead focusing on the most frequently 
      used mathematical tools and methodologies in the decision-making practice. 
      Therefore, the paper may be classified as a special kind of illustrative review 
      of the mathematical tools that are focused on applications and are the most used 
      in the solutions of MCDM problems. As an illustrative example, a complete 
      user-friendly computer implementation of such tools and methodology is presented 
      with application to the simple "buying a cat" problem, which, however, possesses 
      all the attributes of the hierarchical fuzzy MCDM task.
FAU - Dymova, Ludmila
AU  - Dymova L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5387-9990
AD  - Department of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, 
      Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland.
FAU - Kaczmarek, Krzysztof
AU  - Kaczmarek K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6648-7267
AD  - Department of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, 
      Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland.
FAU - Sevastjanov, Pavel
AU  - Sevastjanov P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0401-4525
AD  - Department of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, 
      Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland.
FAU - Kulawik, Joanna
AU  - Kulawik J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5012-6563
AD  - Department of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, 
      Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210207
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Entropy (Basel)
JT  - Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101243874
PMC - PMC7915879
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MCDM
OT  - fuzzy
OT  - hierarchical
OT  - implementation
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/02/11 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/11 06:01
PMCR- 2021/02/07
CRDT- 2021/02/10 01:01
PHST- 2021/01/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/01/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/02/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/02/10 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/02/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/02/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - e23020203 [pii]
AID - entropy-23-00203 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/e23020203 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Entropy (Basel). 2021 Feb 7;23(2):203. doi: 10.3390/e23020203.