Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation
Emergency medical services during the COVID-19 epidemic have become the focus of worldwide attention, and how to effectively respond to urban epidemic situation during a complex environment has become a global challenge. Emergency decision-making can be considered as a multicriteria decision-making...
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| description | Emergency medical services during the COVID-19 epidemic have become the focus of worldwide attention, and how to effectively respond to urban epidemic situation during a complex environment has become a global challenge. Emergency decision-making can be considered as a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, which involves multiple criteria or attributes about qualitative and quantitative aspects. So, in this paper, based on the TODIM method, a hybrid TODIM method with crisp number and probability linguistic term set is first provided to evaluate the severity of urban COVID-19 epidemic situation during a complex humanitarian crisis environment. In this hybrid method, the quantitative aspects are evaluated on the basis of precise numerical values, and the qualitative aspects are evaluated by means of probability linguistic term set, which can not only express their judgments or linguistic preference with multiple linguistic terms but also reflect different importance degrees or probability degrees of all the possible linguistic information or preference information. In addition, the concept of entropy and probability linguistic entropy is applied to induce hybrid criteria weight information. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis of the parameter about attenuation factor of the losses in the hybrid TODIM method, which considers the psychology factors and cognitive behavior of the DMs, is further conducted on a case study, to verify the effectiveness and stability of the proposed method for urban epidemic situation evaluation according to the results of this study. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-526cad4f5d7946728d6e5bce1eff27ed2025-02-03T05:52:29ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262020-01-01202010.1155/2020/48573924857392Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation EvaluationWenshuai Wu0Zeshui Xu1Guangdong Academy of Decision Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, ChinaBusiness School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, ChinaEmergency medical services during the COVID-19 epidemic have become the focus of worldwide attention, and how to effectively respond to urban epidemic situation during a complex environment has become a global challenge. Emergency decision-making can be considered as a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, which involves multiple criteria or attributes about qualitative and quantitative aspects. So, in this paper, based on the TODIM method, a hybrid TODIM method with crisp number and probability linguistic term set is first provided to evaluate the severity of urban COVID-19 epidemic situation during a complex humanitarian crisis environment. In this hybrid method, the quantitative aspects are evaluated on the basis of precise numerical values, and the qualitative aspects are evaluated by means of probability linguistic term set, which can not only express their judgments or linguistic preference with multiple linguistic terms but also reflect different importance degrees or probability degrees of all the possible linguistic information or preference information. In addition, the concept of entropy and probability linguistic entropy is applied to induce hybrid criteria weight information. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis of the parameter about attenuation factor of the losses in the hybrid TODIM method, which considers the psychology factors and cognitive behavior of the DMs, is further conducted on a case study, to verify the effectiveness and stability of the proposed method for urban epidemic situation evaluation according to the results of this study.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4857392 |
| spellingShingle | Wenshuai Wu Zeshui Xu Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation Complexity |
| title | Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation |
| title_full | Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation |
| title_short | Hybrid TODIM Method with Crisp Number and Probability Linguistic Term Set for Urban Epidemic Situation Evaluation |
| title_sort | hybrid todim method with crisp number and probability linguistic term set for urban epidemic situation evaluation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4857392 |
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