A state of the art literature review of VIKOR and its fuzzy extensions on applications

Muhammet Gul; Erkan Celik; Nezir Aydin; Alev Taskin Gumus; Ali Fuat Guneri

doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2016.04.040

A state of the art literature review of VIKOR and its fuzzy extensions on applications

Muhammet Gul, Erkan Celik^*, Nezir Aydin, Alev Taskin Gumus, Ali Fuat Guneri

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Abstract

Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the research areas of operations research and management science which has widely studied by researchers and practitioners. It finds a compromise solution for evaluating and ranking alternatives from the best to the worst under conflicting criteria with respect to decision maker(s) preferences. In a compromise approach, the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR; that means multi-criteria optimization and compromise solution) continues to be applied satisfactorily across different application areas. This paper conducts a state-of-the-art literature review to categorize, analyze and interpret the current research on VIKOR applications. It also discusses the extensions of VIKOR applied in fuzzy environments. A total of 343 papers are classified into 13 different application areas and a number of sub-application areas. Furthermore, all papers are also categorized with respect to publication year, published journal, country of origin, application type (real case study vs empirical study), and version of fuzzy sets used. This comprehensive literature review provides an insight for researchers and practitioners on VIKOR applications in terms of showing current state and potential areas for future attempts to be focused in the future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	60-89
Number of pages	30
Journal	Applied Soft Computing
Volume	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2016.04.040
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Fuzzy sets
Multi criteria decision making
State-of-the-art review
VIKOR

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