Imprecise Shannon’s Entropy and Multi Attribute Decision Making

Finding the appropriate weight for each criterion is one of the main points in Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems. Shannon’s entropy method is one of the various methods for finding weights discussed in the literature. However, in many real life problems, the data for the decision makin...

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Main Authors: Reza Fallahnejad, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-01-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/1/53/
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Summary:Finding the appropriate weight for each criterion is one of the main points in Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems. Shannon’s entropy method is one of the various methods for finding weights discussed in the literature. However, in many real life problems, the data for the decision making processes cannot be measured precisely and there may be some other types of data, for instance, interval data and fuzzy data. The goal of this paper is the extension of the Shannon entropy method for the imprecise data, especially interval and fuzzy data cases.
ISSN:1099-4300