TY - GEN
T1 - Solving nuclear safeguards evaluation problem with fuzzy multiple attribute decision making methods
AU - Kabak, Özgür
AU - Ruan, Da
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducts nuclear safeguards evaluation (NSE) to verify that a State is living up to its international undertakings not to use nuclear programs for nuclear weapons purposes. In NSE, IAEA experts linguistically evaluate more than 900 indicators by benefitting from several sources such as State declarations, on-site inspections, the IAEA databases, and other open sources. The main problem encountered in NSE is on the aggregation of multiple experts' evaluations for numerous indicators to make the final decision about a State. Fuzzy multiple attribute decision making (FMADM) methods are capable of dealing such a problem. In this study, we investigate the applicability of four different FMADM methods to the NSE problem. For this purpose, a simple additive weighting method, a TOPSIS approach, a linguistic term-based method, and an operator-based method are applied to an example from the literature.
AB - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducts nuclear safeguards evaluation (NSE) to verify that a State is living up to its international undertakings not to use nuclear programs for nuclear weapons purposes. In NSE, IAEA experts linguistically evaluate more than 900 indicators by benefitting from several sources such as State declarations, on-site inspections, the IAEA databases, and other open sources. The main problem encountered in NSE is on the aggregation of multiple experts' evaluations for numerous indicators to make the final decision about a State. Fuzzy multiple attribute decision making (FMADM) methods are capable of dealing such a problem. In this study, we investigate the applicability of four different FMADM methods to the NSE problem. For this purpose, a simple additive weighting method, a TOPSIS approach, a linguistic term-based method, and an operator-based method are applied to an example from the literature.
KW - fuzzy multiple attribute decision making
KW - linguistic evaluation
KW - nuclear safeguards
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954591038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1806338.1806392
DO - 10.1145/1806338.1806392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954591038
SN - 9781605586601
T3 - iiWAS2009 - The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
SP - 292
EP - 297
BT - iiWAS2009 - The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
T2 - 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, iiWAS2009
Y2 - 14 December 2009 through 16 December 2009
ER -