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Designing a Fuzzy Expert System to Evaluate Alternatives in Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran
Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Member of Young Researchers Club, Tehran, Iran.
Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Member of Young Researchers Club, Tehran, Iran.
- 1 Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran
- 2 Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Member of Young Researchers Club, Tehran, Iran.
- 3 Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Member of Young Researchers Club, Tehran, Iran.
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications·Volume 03 (2010)·Pages 409–418·Published 30 April 2010·DOI10.4236/jsea.2010.34046
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Abstract
This paper concerns with proposing a fuzzy logic based expert system to breakthrough the problem of alternatives evaluation in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP as a multi criteria decision aid helped decision makers for ana-lyzing and prioritizing the alternatives in a hierarchical structure. During times AHP encountered some problems. Hence, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and some other extensions of AHP have been configured to solve those problems.
KeywordsMulti Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)Expert System
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