TY - GEN
T1 - An integrated AHP and VIKOR approach to evaluating green design alternatives
AU - Tian, Guangdong
AU - Zhou, Mengchu
AU - Zhang, Honghao
AU - Jia, Hongfei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51405075, and Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51561125002.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/25
Y1 - 2016/5/25
N2 - Green design evaluation has been recognized as one of the most significant phases in new product development as it determines the direction of a new product design in manufacturing industry. However, how to assess design alternatives must be answered by excellent designers according to both advanced design methods and effective evaluation methods. This is difficult because some performance values are subjective and imprecise and often depend on experts' judgments. This paper presents a framework based on the combination of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje (VIKOR) to evaluate design alternatives based on green indices in a subjective environment. A novel AHP is presented to determine the weight of each evaluation criterion. VIKOR is used to acquire the final rank of design alternatives. A case study is conducted to verify the performance of the proposed method. The result shows that the proposed multi-criterion decision-making approach can enhance the objectivity in the evaluation of design alternatives greatly.
AB - Green design evaluation has been recognized as one of the most significant phases in new product development as it determines the direction of a new product design in manufacturing industry. However, how to assess design alternatives must be answered by excellent designers according to both advanced design methods and effective evaluation methods. This is difficult because some performance values are subjective and imprecise and often depend on experts' judgments. This paper presents a framework based on the combination of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje (VIKOR) to evaluate design alternatives based on green indices in a subjective environment. A novel AHP is presented to determine the weight of each evaluation criterion. VIKOR is used to acquire the final rank of design alternatives. A case study is conducted to verify the performance of the proposed method. The result shows that the proposed multi-criterion decision-making approach can enhance the objectivity in the evaluation of design alternatives greatly.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICNSC.2016.7479010
DO - 10.1109/ICNSC.2016.7479010
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978164169
T3 - ICNSC 2016 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
BT - ICNSC 2016 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2016
Y2 - 28 April 2016 through 30 April 2016
ER -