Application of independent component analysis and TOPSIS to deal with dependent criteria in multicriteria decision problems

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Highlights：

• Application of ICA techniques to deal with dependent criteria in MCDM problems.

• Combination of ICA techniques and existing TOPSIS approaches.

• The use of ICA mitigates biased effects provided by dependent criteria.

• The proposal improves the results obtained with existing approaches.

摘要

•Application of ICA techniques to deal with dependent criteria in MCDM problems.•Combination of ICA techniques and existing TOPSIS approaches.•The use of ICA mitigates biased effects provided by dependent criteria.•The proposal improves the results obtained with existing approaches.

论文关键词：Multicriteria decision making,Dependence among criteria,Independent component analysis,TOPSIS

论文评审过程：Received 24 September 2018, Revised 22 November 2018, Accepted 3 January 2019, Available online 4 January 2019, Version of Record 30 January 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.01.008