Evaluation of the provincial competitiveness of the Chinese high-tech industry using an improved TOPSIS method

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Highlights：

• The Mahalanobis distance is employed to improve the traditional TOPSIS method.

• The new properties of the improved TOPSIS method are proven.

• Chinese high-tech industry data is used to validate advantages of the new method.

摘要

•The Mahalanobis distance is employed to improve the traditional TOPSIS method.•The new properties of the improved TOPSIS method are proven.•Chinese high-tech industry data is used to validate advantages of the new method.

论文关键词：Competitiveness evaluation,High-tech industry,Mahalanobis distance,TOPSIS,Information overlap

论文评审过程：Available online 18 October 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.10.015