Healthcare waste disposal location selection by a multi-criteria decision-making method with intuitionistic fuzzy sets

Seyed Meysam Mousavi | S. Salimain

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=159249
Date :  2021/11/24
Publish in :    Journal of Quality Engineering and Production Optimization

Link :  http://jqepo.shahed.ac.ir/article_3532.html
Keywords :Healthcare waste disposal location, Multi-criteria decision-making, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Ranking method

Abstract :

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Healthcare industries create hazardous waste (HCW), which can become a danger to the health of society. HCW disposal management is one of the main challenges for urban organizations and healthcare systems. Meanwhile, the HCW disposal location is a wrapped flow due to the contention of different alternatives, criteria, and government principles related to the HCW disposal. In this regard, a new multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach is introduced under the intuitionistic fuzzy (IF) conditions to evaluate the importance degrees of criteria and decision-makers (DMs) by computing their weights and coping with uncertain situations. A new integrated weighting criteria method is provided based on aggregating the subjective and objective criterion weight. The subjective weight is gathered from an expert person and objective weight is computed from ordered weight averaging (OWA) method. Also, a new ranking approach is introduced with an ideal and anti-ideal distance-based method. Finally, a case study from the recent literature is applied to validate the proposed approach. This case determines that the proposed method has a high performance to take the appropriate decision.