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Published on: November 9, 2018
A new multi-criteria decision making method for the selection of construction contractors using interval valued fuzzy
N S Nithya1, Srinivasarao Thota2, Laxmi Rathour3
1Department of Software Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
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.
Results:
The suggested technique integrates the pre-qualification and bid review phases to address project award delays and other restrictions. Finally, a real-world application is addressed to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach to any type of interval valued fuzzy inputs.
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