Application of focus theory of choice in large scale multi-criteria group decision making

Abstract

Some risky multi-criteria group decision making problems include payoff and probability information. To deal with these problems, this study introduces a large scale multi-criteria group decision making model based on focus theory of choice. In this model, a group of experts’ linguistic evaluations on multiple criteria are first collected to form linguistic distributions. The positive foci of the linguistic distributions are computed and aggregated into the alternatives’ scores. It is noted that in this process the linguistic terms and probabilities are aggregated by using different rules. The positive foci of the alternatives’ scores are computed and the optimal alternative is selected. A pollution treatment evaluation problem is solved by using the proposed model, and simulation experiments and comparative analysis are given.