Title: A novel proposal to use the WINGS method in a multi-criteria context

Authors: Frederico Silva Valentim Sallum; Luiz Flavio Autran Monteiro Gomes; Jerzy Michnik

Addresses: MCDA Solutions, São Paulo, Brazil ' Graduate Program in Business and Economics, Ibmec University Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' Department of Operations Research, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

Abstract: We propose a new way to apply the WINGS method in a multi-criteria context. In the WINGS application the decision-maker can set the strength degree of each component and the influence degree of each component on others in the studied system. We consider a system whose components are alternatives. We then generate the strength degree of each alternative by applying the TOPSIS method. We denote the influence degree as preference degree. This preference degree is generated by the PROMÉTHÉE II method's preference index. We present a case study to test this proposal's consistency. We demonstrate that WINGS can be used in combination with other approaches in a usual multi-criteria context. The advantage of such an approach over the original is that in WINGS the final ranking takes into account direct and indirect relations between the alternatives.

Keywords: WINGS method; TOPSIS method; strength degree; PROMÉTHÉE II method; preference degree.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2022.127008

International Journal of Applied Management Science, 2022 Vol.14 No.4, pp.281 - 298

Received: 06 Jul 2019
Accepted: 22 May 2020
Published online: 18 Nov 2022 *

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