Study on Applying Fuzzy AHP and GRA in Selection of Agent Construction Enterprise

To help the client to select a competent agent construction enterprise (ACE), this study aims to investigate the selection standards by using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and build an evaluation mathematical model with Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). According to the outputs of literature review, four orderly levels are established within the model, taking the consideration of various agent construction models in practice. Then, the process of applying FAHP and GRA is discussed in detailed. Finally, through a case study, this paper illustrates how to apply these methods in getting the weights of each standard and the final assessment result.

Authors:

• Shirong Li
• Huan Yan

Keywords:

• agent construction enterprise
• agent constructionmodel
• fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
• grey relational analysis

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