VIKOR-based group decision-making method for software quality assessment

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

2 Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang), Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Abstract

Software quality is an important research direction in software engineering domain,
  which is a multi-dimen-sional evaluation problem.
  The VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (VIKOR) technique is a comprehensive
  method for handing the multi-dimensional evaluation problems. The projection is commonly used to measure the closeness between two decision objects in decision science.
  However, two research questions are found in this work: (1) There is no specific concrete regret
  matrix in current VIKOR technique; (2) The existing projection measures are not
  always reasonable in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy setting. Two research gaps are filled
  systematically in this paper: (1) A specific concrete regret matrix is provided in this extended VIKOR-based group decision-making method; (2) A new normalized projection measure is provided in order to measure the closeness between two decision matrices.
  The decision procedures are also provided in this paper. A practical application to
  the software quality assessment is introduced.
  Some experimental comparisons are provided in order to illustrate the feasibility and practicability of introduced method.

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Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems
Volume 20, Issue 1
January and February 2023
Pages 53-70

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