Emergency alternative evaluation under group decision makers: A method of incorporating DS/AHP with extended TOPSIS

Evaluating Emergency Response Solutions for Sustainable Community Development by Using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making Approaches: IVDHF-TOPSIS and IVDHF-VIKOR

“…Correspondingly, when community development department (CDD) evaluates alternative emergency response solutions to potential risks of emergency scenarios, decision criteria should be derived from these three stages. Generally speaking, emergency response solution is a group of procedures to be implemented in case of a catastrophic event situation involving risk analysis, communication, intervention actions, operational support, logistic support, and whatever is necessary to reduce accident impacts [6][7][8]14,49]. Following suggestions of practices [50] and the lifecycle theory of emergency management [48,51], effective emergency response solutions should be prepared to cover three stages: pre-event, during-event and after-event.…”

“…It also requires final decisions to balance decision makers' different opinions which are often uncertain and cannot be expressed with crisp values due to problem complexity [8]. As a result, the problems of evaluating emergency response plans for sustainable community development can be categorized as a type of multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) [9][10][11][12] problems which involve decision uncertainties caused by evolutions of emergency scenarios [13].…”

“…To our best knowledge, only few researches that have been conducted on ERSE under uncertainty. [8] introduced a DS/AHP based group multi-criteria decision making method in which Dempster-Shafer theory was utilized for expressing incomplete and uncertain information. Reference [14] developed fuzzy AHP based a multi-criteria decision making method where decision preferences was represented by a 2-tuple linguistic variable.…”

“…The main purpose of these DSS-based approaches is to help emergency managers select among alternative response actions in complex and uncertain situations [6]. Although the emergency management unit in a community development department can maintain a balanced managerial status characterized by a set of qualified response solutions to specific emergency situations so that decision makers can quickly and effectively approve the suggested course of actions in front of an event [6], economic development programs in communities often break that balance which requires emergency response solutions [2,7,8] in community planning to answer risks associated with newly introduced potential threats or disasters. Taking the YiWu International Trading Community in China for example, obviously, trading communication and manufacturing collaboration with developing or undeveloped countries have substantially contributed to local fast economic growth.…”

The Taiwanese Businessmen Assess the Investment Environment of China - Construction and Application of PR AHP Program

“…AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was proposed by Saaty which has been widely applied in many fields afterwards (Ju and Wang, 2012;Abdi et al, 2013). Its advantage is to provide a structural and simple solution to the decision-making issue (Skibniewski and Chao, 1992).…”