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Consistency-Based Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making for Fire Station Staffing

Abdulaziz S. Alzahrani & Hesham K. Alfares

International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management2022https://doi.org/10.46970/2021.27.4.1article
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Determining staffing requirements for a fire station is quite difficult as one must balance the cost of additional human resources and the risk of not having an effective force to respond to a given incident. This paper presents an application of a new AHP-based method, incorporating multiple decision-makers and multiple decisions, to fire station staffing in a large residential and industrial complex. Anew practical and comprehensive model is formulated for fire station staffing. Moreover, an effective method is developed to integrate multiple decisions and decision-makers in multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM). The paper presents a two-stage decision-making approach. The first stage is applying AHP to each decision and each decision-maker. The second stage is integrating the inputs to reach a group decision using consistency-based weights of individual decision-makers. The method integrates the different decisions into a set of ranked final decisions using the weighted scores for the combination of decision alternatives.

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@article{abdulaziz2022,
  title        = {{Consistency-Based Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making for Fire Station Staffing}},
  author       = {Abdulaziz S. Alzahrani & Hesham K. Alfares},
  journal      = {International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management},
  year         = {2022},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.46970/2021.27.4.1},
}

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0.41

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.15 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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