This work proposes the application of independent component analysis to the problem of ranking different alternatives by considering criteria that are not necessarily statistically independent. In this case, the observed data (the criteria values for all alternatives) can be modeled as mixtures of latent variables. Therefore, in the proposed approach, we perform ranking by means of the TOPSIS approach and based on the independent components extracted from the collected decision data. Numerical experiments attest the usefulness of the proposed approach, as they show that working with latent variables leads to better results compared to already existing methods.
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Pelegrina, G. D., Duarte, L. T., & Romano, J. M. T. (2018). Muticriteria decision making based on independent component analysis: A preliminary investigation considering the TOPSIS approach. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10891 LNCS, pp. 568–577). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93764-9_52
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