A Novel Multicriteria Decision-Making Method Based on Distance, Similarity, and Correlation: DSC TOPSIS

Table 1

Implementation of the proposed method.

Cases	Structure of the Performance Matrix			Proposed Method Formulas
	Column-; Standardized	Row-; Standardized	Weighting	Sq_Euc	Corr_s	Cos_s	Cos_d	Cos_d	Proposed; D
Case 1	Used	Unused	Unused	Equations (28)-(29)	Equations (30)-(31)	Equations (32)-(33)	Equations (34)-(35)	Equations (36)-(37)	Equations (26)-(27)
Case 2	Used	Unused	Used	Equations; (28)-(29)	Equations; (30)-(31)	Equations; (32)-(33)	Equations; (34)-(35)	Equations; (36)-(37)	Equations (26)-(27)
Case 3	Unused		Unused	Equations (28)-(29)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (49)-(50)
Case 4	Unused		Used	Equations (28)-(29)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (49)-(50)
Case 5	Used (First)	(Second)	Unused	Equations (28)-(29)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (49)-(50)
Case 6	Used (First)	(Second)	Used	Equations (28)-(29)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (51)-(52)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (53)-(54)	Equations (49)-(50)
Case 7	Used; (Second)	(First)	Unused	Equations; (28)-(29)	Equations; (30)-(31)	Equations; (32)-(33)	Equations; (34)-(35)	Equations; (36)-(37)	Equations; (26)-(27)
Case 8	Used; (Second)	(First)	Used	Equations; (28)-(29)	Equations; (30)-(31)	Equations; (32)-(33)	Equations; (34)-(35)	Equations; (36)-(37)	Equations; (26)-(27)

: Standardize criteria according to row-standardization.
: First standardize criteria according to row-standardization and then standardize PIS and NIS values according to row-standardization.