Research Article

A New Hybrid Decision Making Approach for Housing Suitability Mapping of an Urban Area

Table 2

Linguistic scales for criteria weights and alternatives.

Linguistic variables Fuzzy (FDEMATEL)Triangular fuzzy numberLinguistic variable (CMA-ES)Triangular Fuzzy Number

No Impact (N)(0.00,0.00,0.25)Equally strong(1,1,1)
Very Low Impact (VL)(0.00,0.25,0.50)Intermediate(1,2,3)
Low Impact (L)(0.25,0.50,0.75)Moderately strong(2,3,4)
High Impact (H)(0.50,0.75,1.00)Intermediate(3,4,5)
Very High Impact (VH)(0.75,1.00,1.00)Strong(4,5,6)
Intermediate(5,6,7)
Very strong(6,7,8)
Intermediate(7,8,9)
Extremely strong(9,9,9)