Fatih Ecer

Prof. Dr. Fatih Ecer

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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

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1 December 2021 in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
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ATAli Ebadi Torkayesh
Ali Ebadi Torkayesh
Dragan PamucarDragan Pamucar
Dragan Pamucar
Fatih EcerFatih Ecer
Fatih Ecer
PCPrasenjit Chatterjee
Prasenjit Chatterjee

11 August 2020 in Mathematics
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Dragan PamucarDragan Pamucar
Dragan Pamucar
Fatih EcerFatih Ecer
Fatih Ecer
GCGoran Cirovic
Goran Cirovic
Melfi AlrasheediMelfi Alrasheedi
Melfi Alrasheedi
The Best Worst Method (BWM) represents a powerful tool for multi-criteria decision-making and defining criteria weight coefficients. However, while solving real-world problems, there are specific multi-criteria problems where several criteria exert the same influence on decision-making. In such situations, the traditional postulates of the BWM imply the defining of one best criterion and one worst criterion from within a set of observed criteria. In this paper, an improvement of the traditional BWM that eliminates this problem is presented. The improved BWM (BWM-I) offers the possibility for decision-makers to express their preferences even in cases where there is more than one best and worst criterion. The development enables the following: (1) the BWM-I enables us to express experts’ preferences irrespective of the number of the best/worst criteria in a set of evaluation criteria; (2) the application of the BWM-I reduces the possibility of making a mistake while comparing pairs of criteria, which increases the reliability of the results; and (3) the BWM-I is characterized by its flexibility, which is expressed through the possibility of the realistic processing of experts’ preferences irrespective of the number of the criteria that have the same significance and the possibility of the transformation of the BWM-I into the traditional BWM (should there be a unique best/worst criterion). To present the applicability of the BWM-I, it was applied to defining the weight coefficients of the criteria in the field of renewable energy and their ranking.