As the result of the development of Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) with the help of fuzzy set theory a number of innovations have been made possible. The new approach of FMCDM – Fuzzy Hierarchical Modeling - is introduced. It is shown in the article, how to use the fuzzy hierarchical model with other methods of FMCDM. Advantages of the method are described also. We propose a novel approach to overcome the inherent limitations of Hierarchical Methods by exploiting multiple distributed information repositories.
Alexey N. Averkin, T. Agrafonova, N. Titova