TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Fuzzy Decision Making Model for Assessing Quality of Life: A Case of a Coastal Wetlands Community
AU - Abdullah, Lazim AU - Qing, See Xiou 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 7
SP  - 1628
EP  - 1632
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2016.1628.1632
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2016.1628.1632
KW  - Analytic network process
KW  -quality of life
KW  -linguistic variable
KW  -fuzzy number
KW  -Malaysia
AB  - This study highlights a fuzzy decision making method for assessing Quality Of Life (QOL) of a wetlands community. The assessment of QOL is a complex problem since many uncertain criteria are available and many sub-criteria are involved in the decision-making process. To deal with this challenge, the fuzzy Analytic Network Process (fuzzy ANP) is applied to proposed total weights of ten sub-criteria of QOL for a coastal community of Setiu Wetlands Terengganu. A major advantage of the fuzzy ANP is that it incorporates interdependent relationships between criteria and sub-criteria. Five experts that familiar with the QOL of coastal community were invited to provide linguistic evaluation based on the sub-criteria. Three experts suggest that the total QOL of the community is >0.5 out of one. The results also unveiled that the sub-criteria, namely politic, health care, public safety, and power and water provision are the main contributors to the QOL. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach for assessing QOL specifically for the wetlands community.
ER  -