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Increasing the complexity of decision-making problems leads to utilize a group of experts instead of one expert for evaluating the contractor selection problem. This paper proposes a hesitant fuzzy preference selection index method based on risk preferences of experts. The hesitant fuzzy set is used to cope with the uncertainty in vague/hesitant situations. Also, the compromise solution is proposed to compute the weight of each expert. Moreover, the proposed approach considers the quantitative and qualitative criteria and also assists the experts to reduce margin of errors by assigning some membership degrees for each contractor versus each criterion under a set. In addition, the experts' judgments are aggregated in the last step of proposed approach in the group decision process to avoid the data loss. In the presented approach, selecting the best contractor is based on closest to positive ideal and farthest from negative ideal, simultaneously. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a case in construction industry for selecting the suitable contractor, in which the obtained results are compared with two decision methods from the recent literature to indicate the efficiency and validity of the proposed method.
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Chen, C.-T., Extensions of the TOPSIS for group decision-making under fuzzy environment. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2000. 114(1): p. 1-9.
Chen, C.-T., C.-T. Lin, and S.-F. Huang, A fuzzy approach for supplier evaluation and selection in supply chain management. International journal of production economics, 2006. 102(2): p. 289-301.
Chen, S.-M. and S.-J. Niou, Fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making based on fuzzy preference relations. Expert Systems with Applications, 2011. 38(4): p. 3865-3872.
Chiclana, F., et al., Cardinal consistency of reciprocal preference relations: a characterization of multiplicative transitivity. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 2009. 17(1): p. 14-23.
Ebrahimnejad, S., et al., A novel two-phase group decision making approach for construction project selection in a fuzzy environment. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2012. 36(9): p. 4197-4217.
Fu, C. and S.-L. Yang, The group consensus based evidential reasoning approach for multiple attributive group decision analysis. European Journal of Operational Research, 2010. 206(3): p. 601-608.
Fu, C. and S. Yang, An attribute weight based feedback model for multiple attributive group decision analysis problems with group
consensus requirements in evidential reasoning context. European Journal of Operational Research, 2011. 212(1): p. 179-189.
Genç, S., et al., Interval multiplicative transitivity for consistency, missing values and priority weights of interval fuzzy preference relations. Information Sciences, 2010. 180(24): p. 4877-4891.
Herrera-Viedma, E., F. Herrera, and F. Chiclana, A consensus model for multiperson decision making with different preference structures. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on, 2002. 32(3): p. 394-402.
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Maniya, K. and M. Bhatt, A selection of material using a novel type decision-making method: preference selection index method. Materials & Design, 2010. 31(4): p. 1785-1789.
Mata, F., L. Martínez, and E. Herrera-Viedma, An adaptive consensus support model for group decision-making problems in a multigranular fuzzy linguistic context. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 2009. 17(2): p. 279-290. Nazam M, Xu J, Tao Z, Ahmad J, Hashim M, A fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS framework for the risk assessment of green supply chain implementation in the textile industry. International Journal of Supply and Operations Management, 2015, 2(1): p. 548-68.
Pérez, I.J., F.J. Cabrerizo, and E. Herrera-Viedma, A mobile decision support system for dynamic group decision-making problems. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on, 2010. 40(6): p. 1244-1256.
Tanino, T., Fuzzy preference orderings in group decision making. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 1984. 12(2): p. 117-131.
Torra, V., Hesitant fuzzy sets. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2010. 25(6): p. 529-539.
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Wei, G., Hesitant fuzzy prioritized operators and their application to multiple attribute decision making. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2012. 31: p. 176-182.
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Zhu, B., Z. Xu, and M. Xia, Hesitant fuzzy geometric Bonferroni means. Information Sciences, 2012. 205: p. 72-85
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