An Improved TOPSIS Method Based on a New Distance Measure and Its Application to the House Selection Problem

Abstract

It is difficult to choose an appropriate house for homebuyers. This is due to the difficulty of evaluating the multitude of factors, such as price, location, size, and so on. In order to help homebuyers in choosing an appropriate house, a method integrating the interval-valued Pythagorean FAHP and FTOPSIS is proposed. In the proposed approach, the evaluation criteria were determined by the experts, and the linguistic variables of interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy numbers were used in the evaluations of the homebuyers and experts. A new distance between two IVPFNs is proposed. The weights of the evaluation criteria were determined by the interval-valued Pythagorean FAHP method by the homebuyers, and house selections were evaluated by interval-valued Pythagorean FTOPSIS method taking into account the new distance. Finally, a case study was executed to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach. The case study results reveal that the weights of criteria obtained by FAHP are not the same according to opinions of the different homebuyers.