Evaluating intelligent building systems performance in multicriteria group decision making problem

This paper develops a performance evaluation approach for evaluating intelligent building systems in terms of their contribution to the building's operational effectiveness and efficiency in the multicriteria group decision making problem. A fuzzy pairwise comparison process is adopted for reducing the cognitive burden of decision makers in the evaluation process. A fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is used for determining the performance score of available alternatives. An example is given for demonstrating the applicability of the proposed approach for solving the multicriteria group decision making problem in real world situations.