Resolving the Infeasibility of DEMATEL: Two Newly Proposed Solutions

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10.2991/wcnme-19.2019.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

DEMATEL; infeasibility; minimum multiplied solution; vector normalization solution

Abstract

DEMATEL method has been applied in numerous disciplines like airline safety, knowledge management, systems engineering, e-learning. However, there is a kind of infeasible problem that a normalized initial direct incidence matrix might not assemble to a null matrix in the process of gathering total relation matrix of DEMATEL. In order to solve this kind of infeasibility, the sums of all rows of normalized initial direct incidence matrix must be less than zero. This paper proposes the minimum multiplied solution and the vector normalization solution so that the total incidence matrix are obtained. Finally, two cases are illustrated and compared with the original DEMATEL method, the minimal additive solution, the minimal multiplied solution and the vector normalization solution. The results show that the two newly proposed solutions are feasible.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weijian Jin
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Resolving the Infeasibility of DEMATEL: Two Newly Proposed Solutions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Wireless Communication, Network and Multimedia Engineering (WCNME 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 155
EP  - 159
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/wcnme-19.2019.37
DO  - 10.2991/wcnme-19.2019.37
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