The Indoor Environmental Quality: A TOPSIS-based approach with indirect elicitation of criteria weights

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ): A Comparison between TOPSIS- and PROMETHEE-Based Approaches for Indirect Eliciting of Category Weights

“…This is true for MCDM applied to Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment (OHSRA), where the use of MCDM is common practice [ 36 ], as demonstrated in [ 37 ]. To the best of our knowledge, only in [ 20 ] have the authors applied indirect eliciting for IEQ evaluation. They found individual weights for the IEQ categories using indirect eliciting based on TOPSIS, and demonstrated the superiority of indirect eliciting compared to AHP in reconstructing operator/occupant preferences.…”

“…The lack of application of indirect eliciting to IEQ is unexpected, as different types of relations have been tested to interpret individual perceived comfort, while an alternative requiring less cognitive effort has been mostly ignored. Here, in line with the only work that has exploited indirect eliciting, we test the indirect eliciting method proposed in [ 20 ] against a modification of the indirect eliciting method applied in [ 38 , 39 , 40 ] and against classical AHP as a benchmark for the most common direct eliciting method.…”

“…In our hypothesis, the IEQ categories weights are unknown and the eliciting procedure optimizes them by solving the following maximization problem [ 20 ] where, for each time step, a subjective IEQ evaluation has been collected : s.t. …”

“…To limit this cognitive effort, indirect eliciting has been introduced to the field of MCDM [ 18 , 19 ] following this new industrial revolution; it only requires the operator to evaluate a few experienced situations in terms of general comfort without expressing direct preferences over IEQ categories. To the best of our knowledge, only one previous contribution has applied indirect eliciting to the IEQ evaluation [ 20 ], in which case the authors proposed an approach based on the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) [ 21 ]. The scope of this paper is to apply the same indirect eliciting approach to a case study and compare its performance in terms of reconstructed preferences with a different indirect eliciting approach based on the Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE).…”

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Technological Advances, Impacts and Challenges in the Management of Healthy and Sustainable Environments

“…The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) [12] defines Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) as the internal perception that encompasses building planning, evaluation, and operation elements that prioritize energy efficiency, health, and comfort. In a recent study, Lolli, Coruzzolo, and Balugani [13] emphasize the importance of assessing IEQ in academic and project contexts. Therefore, direct weighting approaches can be applied to assess the risks affecting the overall environmental evaluation based on feedback provided by indoor space users, such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [14].…”