A multicriteria intuitionistic fuzzy group decision making for plant location selection with ELECTRE method

Plant location selection, the process of finding a suitable location for plant of a project has a strong influence on the success of industrial venture with the goal to minimize cost and maximize the use of resources. Thus, plant location selection problem is a multicriteria decision-making problem involving several conflicting criteria on which decision makers' knowledge is vague and imprecise. Therefore, in this study, the elimination and choice translating reality (ELECTRE) method is proposed with intuitionistic fuzzy sets for selection of appropriate plant location in group decision-making environment to tackle uncertainty of the information provided by decision makers and a plant location selection problem is considered to illustrate the proposed intuitionistic fuzzy-ELECTRE method. The ratings of alternatives with respect to each criterion and the weights of each criterion are taken as linguistic terms further characterized by triangular intuitionistic fuzzy sets.