Integrated rough VIKOR for customer-involved design concept evaluation combining with customers’ preferences and designers’ perceptions

Customer-involved design concept evaluation (DCE) allows customers to take part in evaluating the design alternatives to get more popular design concept. Traditional customer-involved DCE methods still focus on the collection of customer responses and only consider cost and benefit characteristics of design criteria in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) based evaluation process. Few studies have customized the decision-making algorithms specifically aimed at customers’ preferences. This paper further explores the customers’ influences in the early stages of the product design development, and proposes a new rough number based MCDM model (i.e., VIKOR) incorporating customers’ preferences for design specifications along with designers’ perceptions for the characteristics of design criteria (cost and benefit) to perform concept evaluation under subjective environment, and this proposed method is named as integrated rough VIKOR (IR-VIKOR). The objective of this study is to identify the best design concept which maximizes the satisfactions of expectations from most customers as well as conforms to the characteristics of design criteria. Firstly, Shannon entropy is used to obtain the weightings and relative importance ratings of design criteria from the customers’ preferences. Secondly, the customers’ preferences for design attribute values, the importance ratings of design criteria and the characteristics of design criteria are combined together to define the ideal solutions to calculate the rough evaluation index of each design alternative in IR-VIKOR, and finally the ranking result is provided by IR-VIKOR to determine the best design concept. A practical design example is introduced to illustrate the evaluation process of this proposed method, and the empirical comparisons are further carried out to validate its superiority for DCE. Through the sensitivity analysis experiments including i) inside IR-VIKOR, and ii) between IR-VIKOR and other classical MCDM methods, the proposed method is proved to be a reliable and feasible customer-involved DCE approach.     

考虑QoS偏好的多属性群决策服务选择策略

面对多个功能相同或相似的服务,服务的Qo S是服务选择中重要的考虑因素.将Qo S属性分为精确数型、区间数型和三角模糊数型.在此基础上,利用TOPSIS（technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution）条件下的多属性群决策模型给出了服务选择过程,该过程考虑了多个决策者在决策过程中所占的权重,以及多个决策者不同的Qo S偏好权重.通过一个实例验证了该方法的有效性.     

A decision support system for animated film selection based on a multi-criteria aggregation of referees’ ordinal preferences

This paper presents a decision support system devoted to the selection of films for the International Animated Film Festival organized at Annecy, France, every year. It deals with the representation and aggregation of referees’ preferences along predefined criteria in addition to their overall selection point of view. The practical requirements associated with this application (often encountered in social or cultural areas as well) are: a common ordinal scale for the criteria scores, a procedure to deal with inconsistencies between criteria and overall scores, explanation tools of each referee’s preference model in order to facilitate the deliberation process and also to argument the selection decision. The processing of referees’ preferences is achieved thanks to a recent method which consists in finding a generalized mean aggregation operator representing the preferences of a referee, in a finite ordinal scale context. The method allows to deal with consistency conditions on referees’ behaviour in order to highlight the criteria or pair of criteria which are the most influential for each of the referees. All the functionalities have been implemented in an interactive decision software that facilitates a shared selection decision. Results issued from the 2007 selection are presented and analysed from the preference representation and processing point of view.     

基于个人序的多目标群决策准则的探讨

本文提出了一种基于个人序的群决策准则－最多得票数选择准则和其它两种复合准则，并对这些准则的性质进行了讨论。     

基于云模型与PROMETHEE方法的语言型Z-number多属性决策

针对属性权重未知,属性值为语言型Z-number的多属性决策问题,提出了一种基于云模型与丰富度评估的偏好排序组织方法（Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation, PROMETHEE）的决策方法。首先,引入语言尺度函数,然后利用其建立转化模型完成语言型Z-number向云模型的转化。此外,通过定义云可能度函数,建立属性权重求解公式及构建正弦偏好函数,进而计算方案的优先指数,通过计算方案的正负方向优序级别值得到备选方案综合优序级别值,进而得到方案排序。最后通过算例及比较分析验证本方法的有效性和可行性。     

Selection of industrial robots using compromise ranking and outranking methods

Selection of a robot for a specific industrial application is one of the most challenging problems in real time manufacturing environment. It has become more and more complicated due to increase in complexity, advanced features and facilities that are continuously being incorporated into the robots by different manufacturers. At present, different types of industrial robots with diverse capabilities, features, facilities and specifications are available in the market. Manufacturing environment, product design, production system and cost involved are some of the most influencing factors that directly affect the robot selection decision. The decision maker needs to identify and select the best suited robot in order to achieve the desired output with minimum cost and specific application ability. This paper attempts to solve the robot selection problem using two most appropriate multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and compares their relative performance for a given industrial application. The first MCDM approach is ‘VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje’ (VIKOR), a compromise ranking method and the other one is ‘ELimination and Et Choice Translating REality’ (ELECTRE), an outranking method. Two real time examples are cited in order to demonstrate and validate the applicability and potentiality of both these MCDM methods. It is observed that the relative rankings of the alternative robots as obtained using these two MCDM methods match quite well with those as derived by the past researchers.     

Intelligent multi-criteria fuzzy group decision-making for situation assessments

Organizational decisions and situation assessment are often made in groups, and decision and assessment processes involve various uncertain factors. To increase efficiently group decision-making, this study presents a new rational–political model as a systematic means of supporting group decision-making in an uncertain environment. The model takes advantage of both rational and political models and can handle inconsistent assessment, incomplete information and inaccurate opinions in deriving the best solution for the group decision under a sequential framework. The model particularly identifies three uncertain factors involved in a group decision-making process: decision makers’ roles, preferences for alternatives, and judgments for assessment-criteria. Based on this model, an intelligent multi-criteria fuzzy group decision-making method is proposed to deal with the three uncertain factors described by linguistic terms. The proposed method uses general fuzzy numbers and aggregates these factors into a group satisfactory decision that is in a most acceptable degree of the group. Inference rules are particularly introduced into the method for checking the consistence of individual preferences. Finally, a real case-study on a business situation assessment is illustrated by the proposed method.     

商业构件评价与选择方法研究

在基于商业构件（COTS）的软件开发中,构件的评价与选择是贯穿整个开发过程的关键步骤。有两类典型的基于COTS的系统,即COTS方案系统和COTS密集型系统。本文首先描述了针对COTS方案系统的单构件评价问题的特点,并对各种评价方法进行了分析、对比。然后将COTS密集型系统的多构件选择问题定义为一个在给定的约束条件下求解最佳构件组合的数学优化问题。最后给出了该优化问题的形式描述及其相应的求解方法。     

一种多准则纯语言群决策方法

针对权系数信息和方案的准则值为确定语言等级,或位于两个语言等级之间,甚至缺失的群决策问题,提出一种新的决策方法.该方法利用证据推理算法对准则权系数和方案值在准则下进行群体集成,采用二元语义对方案进行语言集结,并用方案与理想方案的二元语义间距离和群体集成信息等构建非线性规划模型,使用遗传算法求解优化模型,进而得到方案的排序.最后通过实例说明该方法的可行性和有效性.     

Cloud decision model for selecting sustainable energy crop based on linguistic intuitionistic information

In recent years, sustainable energy crop has become an important energy development strategy topic in many countries. Selecting the most sustainable energy crop is a significant problem that must be addressed during any biofuel production process. The focus of this study is the development of an innovative multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to handle sustainable energy crop selection problems. Given that various uncertain data are encountered in the evaluation of sustainable energy crops, linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (LIFNs) are introduced to present the information necessary to the evaluation process. Processing qualitative concepts requires the effective support of reliable tools; then, a cloud model can be used to deal with linguistic intuitionistic information. First, LIFNs are converted and a novel concept of linguistic intuitionistic cloud (LIC) is proposed. The operations, score function and similarity measurement of the LICs are defined. Subsequently, the linguistic intuitionistic cloud density-prioritised weighted Heronian mean operator is developed, which served as the basis for the construction of an applicable MCDM model for sustainable energy crop selection. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the proposed method, and its feasibility and validity are further verified by comparing it with other existing methods.     

考虑多种偏好信息的多阶段方案选择方法

针对方案选择过程中专家倾向于采用不同偏好信息的问题;提出了考虑多种偏好信息的方案选择方法。专家可以从方案集中选择出子集;从效用值、偏好次序、互反判断矩阵和模糊偏好关系四种形式中选择一种对方案子集进行评价;采用转化函数将专家给出的偏好信息转化为偏好向量;根据各个专家的偏好向量集结方案分类结果;将结果用于反馈调整各专家的方案子集;最后通过多个阶段的反馈与调整;改进群体一致性以获得最优方案。将该方法用于某汽车制造商汽车零部件再制造方案的选择;验证了所提方法的有效性。