Fuzzy MCDM Approaches in Sustainability Research: A Literature Review


Öztayşi B., Onar S. C., ÇEBİ S., Kahraman C.

7th International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2025, İstanbul, Türkiye, 29 - 31 Temmuz 2025, cilt.1528 LNNS, ss.830-838, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1528 LNNS
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-031-97985-9_92
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.830-838
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Fuzzy Sets, MCDM, Sustainability
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Sustainability has emerged as an important concept for solving environmental, economic, and social challenges all over the world. Systems and applications are adopted and revisited as sustainability gain importance. During the adaptation, efficient decision making has been an important tool. Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have also gained widespread attention for their ability to support complex decision-making and have been used for sustainability studies. On the other hand, The integration of Fuzzy Set Theory into MCDM has further strengthened existing methods by enabling the modeling of uncertainty and imprecision in expert judgments. This study presents a comprehensive literature review on the application of fuzzy MCDM techniques in sustainability-related research. Using a structured search methodology on the Scopus database, we analyze trends, commonly used techniques, fuzzy set extensions in the field. Furthermore, a content analysis is applied to categorize studies into six thematic areas: Governance and Policy Making, Corporate Sustainability and Planning, Infrastructure and Smart Cities, Waste Management, Supply Chain Management, and Energy Management. The results show that a significant increase in the number of fuzzy MCDM studies on sustainability in recent decade, with TOPSIS, AHP, and VIKOR emerging as the most frequently used methods. Intuitionistic and Pythagorean fuzzy sets are among the most adopted fuzzy extensions.