IJAHP: Kahraman/Special topic articles on fuzzy AHP 

 

 
 
 

International Journal of the 

Analytic Hierarchy Process 

144 

 

Vol. 10 Issue 2 2018 

ISSN 1936-6744 

https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v10i2.600 

Special Topic Articles on Fuzzy AHP 

 

 
 

In this issue, three papers on the theoretical development and/or practical usage of 

Fuzzy AHP are presented. The first paper, Warehouse Risk Assessment Using Interval 

Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy AHP by Selcuk Cebi and Esra Ilbahar is on the selection 

of a maintenance strategy involving the prioritization of critical factors. It presents an 

AHP application based on four maintenance strategies, namely corrective 

maintenance, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and proactive 

maintenance, and the decision criteria, which are cost, quality, safety, value added 

and viability. The contribution of the paper is that Fuzzy AHP may be a useful tool to 

solve the consistency problems in classical AHP applications. The second paper, 

Selection of Industrial Maintenance Strategy: Classical AHP and Fuzzy AHP 

Applications by Robison Ohta, Valerio A. P. Salomon and Messias Borgia Silva, tries 

to evaluate and categorize the risks in warehouses in terms of occupational health and 

safety. It provides a new perspective to warehouse risk assessment. An interval-

valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP is proposed for evaluating and categorizing the risks 

in warehouses. The third paper, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Originated Interval Type-2 Fuzzy 

AHP: An Application to Damless Hydroelectric Power Plants by Cengiz Kahraman, 

Başar Öztayşi, Sezi Çevik Onar and Onur Doğan, develops an intuitionistic fuzzy 

originated interval type-2 fuzzy AHP method and applies it to the technology 

selection problem of a damless hydroelectric power plant. Linguistic evaluations and 

its corresponding triangular intuitionistic fuzzy scale are used in this multi criteria 

damless technology selection problem. 

 

I hope this section will provide a useful resource of ideas, techniques, and methods 

for research on fuzzy AHP. I am grateful to the referees whose valuable and highly 

appreciated works contributed to the selection of the papers published in this section. 

I would like to thank the Editor-in-Chief, Enrique Mu, and Associate Editor, Birsen 

Karpak for their supportive roles in this process. 

 

Cengiz Kahraman, Guest Editor 

Ckahraman 

Department of Industrial Engineering,  

Istanbul Technical University,  

34367 Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey