Normalization method for quantitative and qualitative attributes in multiple attribute decision-making problems

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Highlights：

• Discussion of some limitations of the quantitative attribute normalization functions.

• We propose a way to avoid inconsistencies in normalization functions.

• We establish a new procedure to transform the linguistic terms into numerical values.

摘要

•Discussion of some limitations of the quantitative attribute normalization functions.•We propose a way to avoid inconsistencies in normalization functions.•We establish a new procedure to transform the linguistic terms into numerical values.

论文关键词：Decision-making,Normalization,Consensus matrix,Qualitative and quantitative attributes,Evaluation

论文评审过程：Received 23 February 2021, Revised 27 November 2021, Accepted 2 March 2022, Available online 18 March 2022, Version of Record 23 March 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116821