Evaluation of the Ordered Weighted Averaging Method

摘要

This paper discusses and evaluates the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) approach. OWA is one of the decision-making methods. The order weights of OWA are key factors that make the decision for the given slections. There are several approaches to determine the order weights such as the minimal variability mean and the fuzzy linguistic quantifier method. This short paper proposes to use an analytic hierarchical process (AHP) to solve the same decision-making issue as OWA analyzed. A water resources management problem is selected as testing example. The simulation results shown that the proposed AHP based approach can obtain the best results.