A Hybrid MCDM for Private Primary School Assessment Using DEMATEL Based on ANP and Fuzzy Cognitive Map

Abstract

Primary school selection is actually a decision making problem that should be supported with several source of information. Parents usually handle this problem in an unstructured manner which is indeed a fuzzy mental ranking of schools with respect to the effectiveness. In this study, an analytical hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) model is proposed and explained with details for private primary school selection problem. A case study indicating primary school choices of parents in Turkey is also presented.

An Application of Value Analysis for Lean Healthcare Management in an Emergency Department

“…It is very common to employ the DEMATEL approach to evaluate criteria in the last decades. The DEMATEL approach has been used in various problems such as business process management evaluation 11 , logistics 12 , human resource selection 13 , vehicle fleet maintenance management 14 , facility layout problem 15 , supplier selection 16 , electronic design automation 17 , school selection 18 . The prior works use the DEMATEL method for many applications but this paper is the first application in the lean management field.…”

Determination of Effective Critical Factors in Successful Efficiency Measurement of University Departments by Using Fuzzy DEMATEL Method

“…After Fontela (1972, 1973) initiated DEMATEL technique, considerable amount of studies have been done concentrated on structural model that gathers group knowledge and visualize the causal relationship of criteria by using graphical diagram. Recently, the DEMATEL and fuzzy DEMATEL methods have been studied in different areas, such as real estate agent service quality (Tseng, 2009), personnel selection (Aksakal & Dağdeviren, 2010), emergency management (Zhou, Huang, & Zhang, 2011), supplier selection and evaluation (Chang, Chang, & Wu, 2011;Büyüközkan & Çifçi, 2012;Mavi & Shahabi, 2015), human resources management (Chou, Sun, & Yen, 2012), machine selection (Organ, 2013), facility layout (Altuntas, Selim, & Dereli, 2014), private school evaluation (Baykasoglu & Durmusoglu, 2014), determining environmental performance (Tsai et al, 2015), project selection (Ortíz, Felizzola, & Isaza, 2015;Vinodh & Swarnakar, 2015), ship selection (Sener, 2016). Aksakal & Dağdeviren (2010) proposed an integrated algorithm by combined DEMATEL and Analytic Network Process (ANP) for decision making about the personnel selection.…”

Professional Volleyball Development in Taiwan’s Sports Industry

“…5,6,7,8 The ANP and DEMATEL are recognized as robust approaches and therefore are applied in a wide area of research, such as making strategic decisions. 9,10,11,12 ANP helps decision-makers to formulate and analyze multiple criteria based on a network structure. 12 To the best our knowledge, this study is the first attempt to investigate complex interrelations among key factors of developing professional volleyball in the sports industry by using the novel integration of fuzzy Delphi and the DEMATEL-based analytic network process (DANP).…”

“…9,10,11,12 ANP helps decision-makers to formulate and analyze multiple criteria based on a network structure. 12 To the best our knowledge, this study is the first attempt to investigate complex interrelations among key factors of developing professional volleyball in the sports industry by using the novel integration of fuzzy Delphi and the DEMATEL-based analytic network process (DANP). Identification of such key factors is achieved by two means: first, to investigate which criteria have higher weights to promote the professional volleyball; and second, to highlight any interrelationships among the key factors that would suggest the drivers initiate the promotion and enhancement.…”