A new multi-criteria decision making method for the selection of construction contractors using interval valued fuzzy set.

Journal: BMC research notes
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This article introduces a novel approach called Digital Weighted Multi Criteria Decision Making (DWMCDM) that employs interval valued fuzzy sets to select the best contractor for building projects. The contractor is chosen based on the pre-qualification and bid evaluation phases. In the first phase, the distance between the actual and required skills of the significant criteria is determined, and it is then converted into digital weighted distances to identify the maximum number of criteria related to the specific project of each contractor. The second step ranks the best contractor based on the bid price and digital weighted distances.

Authors

  • N S Nithya
    Department of Software Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Srinivasarao Thota
    Department of Mathematics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, 522503, India.
  • Laxmi Rathour
    , Ward Number-16, Bhagatbandh, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, 484224, India.
  • P Shanmugasundaram
    Department of Mathematics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Mizan-Tepi University, Tepi, Ethiopia. psserode@mtu.edu.et.