Material Handling Equipment Selection Using Weighted Utility Additive Theory

Table 5

Most and least preferred values with interval difference for each criterion.

Attribute	FC	VC	SC	IW	𝑊	𝐹
𝑔^+𝑖	0.1049	0.1260	0.1260	0.2402	0.2245	0.1782
𝑔^−𝑖	0.0874	0.1205	0.0969	0.1201	0.1123	0.1390
(𝑔^+𝑖−𝑔^−𝑖)	0.0175	0.0055	0.0291	0.1201	0.1123	0.0392
Intervals (𝛼𝑖)	2	2	2	3	3	2
[(𝑔^+𝑖−𝑔^−𝑖)/𝛼𝑖]	0.0087	0.0027	0.0145	0.0400	0.0374	0.0196