Comparison of Several Decision-Making Techniques: A Case of Water Losses Management in Developing Countries

Shaher H. Zyoud; Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch

doi:10.1142/S0219622019500275

Comparison of Several Decision-Making Techniques: A Case of Water Losses Management in Developing Countries

Shaher H. Zyoud^*, Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch

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Abstract

Managing water losses in water supply systems has become a crucial concern. Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques are efficient in this regard. A framework of prioritizing strategies to manage water losses was tested by different MCDM techniques, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and several Fuzzy AHP techniques. The modified Fuzzy AHP produced the most credible and consistent outputs. Sensitivity analysis conducted over it showed that the ranking of strategies/alternatives was sensitive to changes in weights of criteria with higher importance. This analysis demonstrates the ability of AHP and Fuzzy AHP techniques to deal with complex issues in water loss management.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1551-1578
Number of pages	28
Journal	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219622019500275
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2019

Keywords

Analytic hierarchy process AHP
comparative analysis
Fuzzy AHP
intermittent supply
sensitivity analysis
water losses

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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