A framework for evaluating rabbit-breeding farm in the mediterranean: A TOPSIS approach

The rural venture farm needs to develop improved methods for evaluating the performance of its projects. We are interested in the problems of the implementation of a rabbit-breeding farm. One of the first decisions to be taken refers to the type of the structure for housing the animals. In general, greater environmental control requires more technology and a greater investment cost, but also yields higher levels of production which are, above all, uniform over time. Considering that we are faced with a problem that includes different, in some cases contradictory, aspects, we have decided to carry out a multicriteria analysis, using five evaluation criteria. We assume there is no quantitative information available for the decision but only linguistic information can be used. The main purpose of this paper is to study the problem by means of the fuzzy TOPSIS Method for multicriteria decision making, when the information regarding the alternatives is quantified by means of fuzzy numbers and the information about criteria is obtaining by means of a linear ordered weighted averaging operator.