The TOPSIS Method and Its Application to Linguistic Variables

Most of the time, the input of the decision process is linguistic, but this is not the case for the output. For that reason, we have modified the TOPSIS model to make it so that the output of the process is the same as the input, that is to say linguistic. This proposal will be applied to the process of quality assessment and accreditation of the Industrial Engineering Schools within the Spanish university system.

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