Multi-Criteria and Multi-Stage Facility Location Selection under Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Environment: A Case Study for a Cement Factory

• Main Authors: Ferhan Cebi, İrem Otay
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantis Press 2015-04-01
• Series: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
• Subjects: Type-2 fuzzy sets; Facility location selection; Fuzzy TOPSIS; multi-criteria; decision making
• Online Access: https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25868600.pdf

The study proposes a comprehensive and systematic approach for multi-criteria and multi-stage facility location selection problem. To handle with high and more uncertainty in the evaluation and selection processes, the problem is solved by using multi-criteria decision making technique with interval Type-2 fuzzy sets. The study contributes the facility location selection literature by introducing the application of fuzzy TOPSIS method with interval Type-2 fuzzy sets. Finally, the suggested approach is applied to a real life region and site selection problem of a cement factory.