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In recent few years MCDM methodology (Bhole & Deshmukh, 2018; Velasquez & Hester, 2013) have become one of the most useful techniques and gained in popularity for decision making purposes. Many researchers adopted different types of MCDM techniques like AHP (Saaty, 1980, 2001, 2008, 2010; Saaty & Peniwati, 2008), VIKOR (Opricovic, 1990; Opricovic & Tzeng, 2004), PROMETHEE (Brans, Mareschal & Vincke, 1986; Brans and Vincke, 1985), COPRAS (Zavadskas, Kaklauskas, Turkskis & Tamosaitien, 2008), TOPSIS (Hwang et al., 1993; Hwang and Yoon, 1981; Yoon, 1987), ELECTRE (Roy, 1968), ARAS (Zavadskas, Turskis & Vilutiene, 2010; Zavadskas and Turkis, 2010), Fuzzy-MCDM (Abdulsalam, Ighravwe & Babatunde, 2018; Ayhan, 2013; Azizi, Aikhuele & Soulemen, 2015; Buckley, 1985; Buyukozkan and Cifci, 2012; Celik, Deha & Ozok, 2009; Chan and Kumar, 2007; Chang, 1996; Chatterjee and Bose, 2013; Joshi, 2017; Sun, 2010; Zadeh, 1965) etc. in different areas like energy management (Kowalski, Stagl, Madlener & Omann, 2009; Tsoutsos, Drandaki, Frantzeskaki, Iosifidis & Kiosses, 2009), water management (Chung and Lee, 2009; Qin, Huang, Chakma & Nie, 2008), environmental management (Geldermann, Spengler & Rentz, 2000; Marzouk and Abdelakder, 2017; Marzouk and Abdelakder, 2019), waste management (Chandrakar and Limje, 2018), educational field (Bhattacharya and Chakraborty, 2014; Melon, Aragones & Carmen, 2008), industries (Bulut, Duru, Kececi & Yoshida, 2012; Celik et al., 2009; Karande, Zavadskas & Chakraborty, 2016; Kundakci and Isik, 2016; Roistamzadeh and Sofian, 2011; Sri Krishna, Readdy & Vani, 2014; Yang), business and financial management (Korhonen, Koskinen & Voutilainen, 2006; Lee, Chen & Chang, 2008; Secme, Bayrakdaroglu & Kahraman, 2009), transport and logistics (Tzeng, Lin & Opricovic, 2005; Efendigil, Onut & Kongar, 2008; Xiaomin & Yi, 2017; Xiong, Zhao & Lan, 2019), agricultural sectors (Isik and Adali, 2016), medical fields (Buyukozkan and Cifci, 2012), supply chain management (Felice & Petrillo, 2013) etc.
Tzeng et al. (2005) carried out an analysis of alternative-fuel buses for public transportation by using AHP, TOPSIS and VIKOR. Chan and Kumar (2007) used fuzzy extended AHP-based approach for global supplier development by considering the risk factors. Chang et al. (2008) selected unstable slicing machine to control wafer slicing quality by using fuzzy AHP. Duran and Aguilo (2008) adopted fuzzy-AHP approach for the selection of computer-aided machine tool. Huang et al. (2008) applied FAHP in government sponsored R&D project selection. Lee et al. (2008) evaluated the performance of IT department in the manufacturing industry in Taiwan by using fuzzy AHP and BSC approach.