Journal of Industrial Engineering

Research Article

Logistics Service Provider Selection through an Integrated Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making Approach

Table 3

Fuzzy triangular numbers for pairwise comparison of criteria [75].
Linguistic variablesTriangular fuzzy numbersReverse Triangular fuzzy numbers
Equal importance (EI)(1, 1, 1)(1/1, 1/1, 1/1)
EI-WI(1, 2, 3)(1/3, 1/2, 1)
Weak importance (WI)(2, 3, 4)(1/4, 1/3, 1/2)
WI-FSI(3, 4, 5)(1/5, 1/4, 1/2)
Fairly strong importance (FSI)(4, 5, 6)(1/6, 1/5, 1/4)
FSI-VSI(5, 6, 7)(1/7, 1/6, 1/5)
Very strong importance (VSI)(6, 7, 8)(1/8, 1/7, 1/6)
VSI-AI(7, 8, 9)(1/9, 1/8, 1/7)
Absolute importance (AI)(8, 9, 9)(1/9, 1/9, 1/8)