Agricultural Service Center Location Problem: Concept and a MCDM Solution Approach

Abstract : The main aim of this study is to develop a multi-criteria decision making approach considering all aspects of the agricultural service center location problem (ASCLP). Initially a Delphi Fuzzy-AHP survey has been completed to extract the objectives and attributes of the ASCLP and their local weights. The main novel contribution of this paper is extracting and considering in a comprehensive manner the attributes and objectives for solving the problem of identifying: technical potential of candidate locations and demand and market location. By using the developed attributes, two scores (maxi-min and maxi-max) are computed for each candidate location and non-dominated solutions identified.