Commercial-off-the Shelf Vendor Selection: a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and TOPSIS
Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) component selection is considered a critical task in effectively developing a component-based software system (CBSS). COTS vendor selection involves selecting the right vendors who can provide reliable COTS components at a suitable price and on time. However, COTS ve...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Regional Association for Security and crisis management, Belgrade, Serbia
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Operational Research in Engineering Sciences: Theory and Applications |
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| Online Access: | https://oresta.rabek.org/index.php/oresta/article/view/216 |
| Summary: | Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) component selection is considered a critical task in effectively developing a component-based software system (CBSS). COTS vendor selection involves selecting the right vendors who can provide reliable COTS components at a suitable price and on time. However, COTS vendor selection is commonly a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issue” associated with many paradoxical criteria for which the decision maker’s knowledge may be uncertain and ambiguous. This paper attempts to present “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) combined with the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) method” to appraise and choose the best COTS vendor under the environment of group decision making while considering reliability, delivery time, compatibility, vendor support and functionality as benefit criteria. In contrast, price and maintenance be the cost criteria. The considered case study demonstrated the presented case effectively.
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| ISSN: | 2620-1607 2620-1747 |