Application of TOPSIS in evaluating initial training aircraft under a fuzzy environment

作者：Wang Tien Chin^*; Chang Tsung Han

来源：Expert Systems with Applications, 2007, 33(4): 870-880.

DOI：10.1016/j.eswa.2006.07.003

• multiple criteria decision-making (MCMD)
• initial training aircraft
• fuzzy sets theory
• TOPSIS

This paper develops an evaluation approach based on the Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), to help the Air Force Academy in Taiwan choose optimal initial training aircraft in a fuzzy environment where the vagueness and subjectivity are handled with linguistic terms parameterised by triangular fuzzy numbers. This study applies the fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to determine the importance weights of evaluation criteria and to synthesize the ratings of candidate aircraft. Aggregated the evaluators' attitude toward preference; then TOPSIS is employed to obtain a crisp overall performance value for each alternative to make a final decision. This approach is demonstrated with a real case study involving 16 evaluation criteria, seven initial propeller-driven training aircraft assessed by 15 evaluators from the Taiwan Air Force Academy.

• 出版日期2007-11
• 单位中国人民解放军信息工程大学