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TOPSIS-Sort — TOPSIS-based sorting of alternatives into ordered categories

OriginatorSabokbar, H. F., Hosseini, A., Banaitis, A., Banaitiene, N.Year2016Sources1Related methods8

TOPSIS-SORT (TOPSIS-Sort — TOPSIS-based sorting of alternatives into ordered categories) is a sorting multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method introduced by Sabokbar, H. F., Hosseini, A., Banaitis, A., Banaitiene, N. in 2016. It turns a decision matrix of alternatives scored on multiple criteria into a structured, reproducible result.

Key highlights

  • Follows a transparent, reproducible computational procedure that can be audited step by step.
  • Handles multiple criteria of differing scales and units within a single decision matrix.

Intuition

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TOPSIS-Sort — TOPSIS-based sorting of alternatives into ordered categories

Strengths & limitations

Strengths
  • Follows a transparent, reproducible computational procedure that can be audited step by step.
  • Handles multiple criteria of differing scales and units within a single decision matrix.
Limitations
  • Assumes full compensation — a strong score on one criterion can offset a weak score on another.

Sources

  1. 1.
    Sabokbar, H. F., Hosseini, A., Banaitis, A., Banaitiene, N. (2016). A novel sorting method TOPSIS-SORT: An application for Tehran environmental quality evaluation. E+M Ekonomie a Management
    DOI 10.15240/tul/001/2016-2-006

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