tailieunhanh - Selecting the best mobile model by applying AHP-COPRAS and AHP-ARAS decision making methodology

The main objective of this research article is to select the best mobile model among various alternatives available on the market. For this analysis 10 alternative models from different brands are selected from different online shopping website having different specifications and ranging from low budget to medium budget in terms of price. | Selecting the best mobile model by applying AHP-COPRAS and AHP-ARAS decision making methodology International Journal of Data and Network Science 4 2020 27 42 Contents lists available at GrowingScience International Journal of Data and Network Science homepage ijds Selecting the best mobile model by applying AHP-COPRAS and AHP-ARAS decision making methodology Shankha Shubhra Goswamia and Soupayan Mitrab a PhD student Department of Mechanical Engineering Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology Post Sarang District Dhenkanal Odisha India b Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College Post amp District Jalpaiguri West Bengal India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The main objective of this research article is to select the best mobile model among various alter- Received July 1 2019 natives available on the market. For this analysis 10 alternative models from different brands are Received in revised format July selected from different online shopping website having different specifications and ranging from 22 2019 low budget to medium budget in terms of price. For this selection purposes two multiple criteria Accepted August 30 2019 Available online August 30 2019 decision making tools MCDM has been adopted . Complex Proportional Assessment COP- Keywords RAS and Additive Ratio Assessment ARAS . The selection process is done based on four im- Mobile portant criteria . price internal storage RAM and brand. The weightages of the criteria are MCDM calculated by using Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP and these weightages are further used in COPRAS COPRAS and ARAS methods. Individual COPRAS and ARAS method is applied for the selection ARAS of the best mobile and the preference ranking order of the models are also proposed by each pro- AHP cess. The proposed ranking order by both the methods are compared and it is found that the out- come results are more or less the same using both techniques