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With the emerging technologies, collecting and processing data about the behaviors of customers or employees in a specific location has become possible. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate existing data collection technologies. Technology evaluation problem is handled as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In this manner, a decision model containing four criteria and four alternatives are formed. In this study, we use Spherical Fuzzy TOPSIS method to solve the technology selection problem.

Product Development (PD) is a very crucial area for companies that want to hold a competitive and strategic advantage in the market. PD partner becomes the long-term partner; hence its selection is a critical process. In this paper, the PD evaluation and selection procedure are approached as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process in which the ELICIT information-based framework is suggested. The main aim of the process is to create a flexible decision-making environment for decision-makers with linguistic expressions. The recommended methodology is tested with a case study by a Turkish agriculture firm, and the results are presented in the paper.

Using and consuming healthy and natural products has been of concern for many of us. We want all the products we eat, drink, wear, and use to be natural or healthy, but over the years, it has become either very difficult to find natural products or it can be very expensive. Cleaning our body and kitchen utensils with natural products has also recently emerged as an important issue. In this study, we evaluate washing liquids from the viewpoint of human and environmental health. While making the evaluation, nine important criteria were taken into consideration and six alternative washing liquids were selected to find out which one is more suitable. Multi Criteria Decision Making Methodologies (MCDM) were utilized while performing the ranking process. Criteria weights were found through the Step-wise Weight Appraisal Ratio Analysis (SWARA) methodology. The alternatives’ ranking was determined through the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methodology.

The sustainability problem of the textile and apparel industry has always been a hot social issue. Among many sustainable strategies, the sustainable benefits brought by supply chain management are increasingly evident, among which supplier selection is the most critical part of each link of supply chain management. Integrating sustainability into the process of supplier selection increases the difficulty for apparel enterprises to choose suitable suppliers. This paper analyzes and integrates the criteria of a sustainable apparel supplier (SAS) selection system from the triple bottom line (TBL) perspective and proposes a sustainable selection method based on the triple bottom line principle. First, we systematically collect sustainable supplier selection criteria and establish a hierarchy of criteria suitable for the apparel industry. Then, the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is used to determine the weight of sustainable supplier selection in the apparel industry. Finally, the potential suppliers were ranked by the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and a practical case verifies the feasibility of the model. This paper will provide apparel enterprises with a new idea of supplier selection based on the sustainable concept.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the multiple attribute decision making problems with intuitionistic fuzzy information, in which the information about attribute weights is completely known, and the attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. A modified TOPSIS analysis method is proposed. Then, based on the traditional TOPSIS method, calculation steps for solving intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision-making problems with known weight information are given. The weighted Hamming distances between every alternative and positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution are calculated. Then, according to the weighted Hamming distances, the relative closeness degree to the positive ideal solution is calculated to rank all alternatives. Finally, a practical example is used to illustrate the developed procedures.

With the recent paradigm shift towards Cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Service selection and evolution have emerged as significant challenges for service integrators and maintainers. Service selection process involves both subjective and objective factors based on user feedback and performance assessment, along with inherently imprecise data. Similarly, determining the relative importance of component services (CS) in a service composition is not a trivial task, and encounters similar challenges as for service selection. This relative importance of CSs is crucial to quantify the impact of a proposed change in service composition. However, existing literature lacks a systematic procedure which aggregates user feedback and real world performance assessment data, while incorporating inherent fuzziness of these criteria. In this study, we formulate these problems as Multi-Criteria Decision problems, and propose a hybrid MCDM model based on Fuzzy Delphi methodology (FDM), Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), Fuzzy Vikor and Fuzzy TOPSIS to tackle previously mentioned issues. The proposed model is different from existing studies in services computing, as it incorporates both user feedback and real world performance assessment data, and deals with uncertainty in decision making process. FDM is used to determine critical subjective and objective factors for service selection and importance degree of CSs in existing compositions. Then, Fuzzy AHP is used to determine the criteria weights, while FTOPSIS or FVIKOR is used to rank the alternatives.

As we search to achieve sustainable development and substance, energy security and efficiency should be viewed not only from the perspective of addressing short-term challenges, but also as a necessity for long-term growth of the economy. Latterly, some articles have majored on selecting the best energy policy and arbitrating the best energy alternatives. In this paper, AHP, VIKOR, PROMETHEE and TOPSIS approaches are suggested for the selection among energy policies. The methodology is based on these four methods under a comparison. In the application of the proposed methodologies, the best energy policy is determined for Turkey.

Service quality evaluation has become a main area of interest for practitioners, managers, researchers and policy makers, who have inclined on the passengers' service. In this paper, intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS approach is applied to evaluate service quality of rail transit systems of Istanbul. A total of 6553 surveys are conducted and analyzed in seven rail lines with respect to 20 service qualities.

The evaluation of medical imaging devices is a critical issue for both biomedical engineers and health-care investors. This study proposes a new technique to assess common medical imaging devices using type-2 fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach. The evaluation criteria were characterized by the interviews with the experts. A Gaussian type-2 Fuzzy membership function was assigned for each interval of the evaluation. TOPSIS algorithm was applied to our system using type-2 Fuzzy numbers. The results were classified with the Wu and Mendel's ranking method. The ranking of device alternatives highlighted the accurate order of future imaging technologies with the fuzzy behavior of medical investments in conjunction with the requirements of the clinicians and the engineers.

In the knowledge economy, a key source of sustainable competitive advantage relies on the way to create, share, and utilize knowledge. This paper presents an application of the interval type-2 TOPSIS method used to select the most appropriate tool to support knowledge management (KM) activities in a healthcare system. The method provides us with a useful way to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems in a more flexible and more intelligent manner to analyze and compare KM tools in the software market. A case study is given to demonstrate the potential of the methodology.