In this paper, in order to eliminate the above-mentioned problems, it has been tried to provide an approach using the Fuzzy Best-Worst method, called F-BWANP. | Fuzzy BWANP multi-criteria decision-making method Decision Science Letters 8 2019 85 94 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl Fuzzy BWANP multi-criteria decision-making method Moslem Alimohammadloua and Abbas Bonyanib aDepartment of Industrial Management Faculty of Economic Management and Social Science Shiraz University Shiraz Iran bDepartment of Industrial Management Faculty of Management and Accounting Allameh Tabataba i University Tehran Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Fuzzy Analytical Network Process F-ANP method is able to consider the complex Received November 18 2017 relationships among different levels of decisions transactions and feedbacks of criteria and Received in revised format alternatives to calculate the weights of the elements. The large number of pair-wise January 8 2018 comparisons in F-ANP and also difficulties in understanding the way of comparisons for the Accepted April 23 2018 Available online expert have reduced the efficiency and practicality of this method. In this paper in order to April 23 2018 eliminate the above-mentioned problems it has been tried to provide an approach using the Keywords Fuzzy Best-Worst method called F-BWANP. The proposed method requires less comparison Decision-Making data and leads to more consistent comparisons which means that more reliable results can be Fuzzy Analytic Network Process obtained while making it much easier for responding by experts. Finally in order to describe Fuzzy Best-Worst Method the proposed method and evaluate its capability a numerical example is provided. 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Saaty 1996 when seeking a solution for limitations of Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP and its inability in applying dependencies between criteria and factors developed another approach which was known as Analytic Network Process ANP . Analytic Network Process approach is an extension of AHP .
