Selection of a spouse for females using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model in India

Unlike western world, Indians have different way to choose their partner, especially for females. In the past, there were few opportunities available to females for the selection of their partner due to limited access to geographical area and information. With the enhanced communication mediums such as matrimonial websites females, especially corporate working, receive many profiles of the potential candidates for marriage. Hence, to assist the females in their decision making for selecting an appropriate life-partner this work has been conducted. The hybrid method of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order preference and similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) has been applied to calculate the importance of each criterion which is identified through literature review and field survey and rank the various alternatives (candidate profiles), respectively. The results of a real case study show that the application of AHP and TOPSIS leads to better decision making for a female in the multi-criteria decision making scenario such as this.