000032176 001__ 32176 000032176 005__ 20210121082904.0 000032176 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.15446/dyna.v82n191.51140 000032176 0248_ $$2sideral$$a90622 000032176 037__ $$aART-2015-90622 000032176 041__ $$aspa 000032176 100__ $$aAguarón, Juan 000032176 245__ $$aA new synthesis procedure for TOPSIS based on AHP 000032176 260__ $$c2015 000032176 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000032176 5203_ $$aVega et al. [1] analyzed the influence of the attributes’ dependence when ranking a set of alternatives in a multicriteria decision making problem with TOPSIS. They also proposed the use of the Mahalanobis distance to incorporate the correlations among the attributes in TOPSIS. Even in those situations for which dependence among attributes is very slight, the results obtained for the Mahalanobis distance are significantly different from those obtained with the Euclidean distance, traditionally used in TOPSIS, and also from results obtained using any other distance of the Minkowsky family. This raises serious doubts regarding the selection of the distance that should be employed in each case. To deal with the problem of the attributes’ dependence and the question of the selection of the most appropriate distance measure, this paper proposes to use a new method for synthesizing the distances to the ideal and the anti-ideal in TOPSIS. The new procedure is based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and is able to capture the relative importance of both distances in the context given by the measure that is considered; it also provides rankings, which are closer to the distances employed in TOPSIS, regardless of the dependence among the attributes. The new technique has been applied to the illustrative example employed in Vega et al. [1]. 000032176 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2011-24181 000032176 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000032176 592__ $$a0.238$$b2015 000032176 593__ $$aEngineering (miscellaneous)$$c2015$$dQ2 000032176 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000032176 700__ $$aEscobar, María Teresa 000032176 700__ $$aGarcía-Alcaraz, Jorge Luis 000032176 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-5037-6976$$aMoreno Jiménez, José María$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000032176 700__ $$aVega, Alberto 000032176 7102_ $$14008$$2623$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb.$$cÁrea Métodos Cuant.Econ.Empres 000032176 773__ $$g82, 191 (2015), 11-19$$pDYNA (Medellin)$$tDyna$$x0012-7353 000032176 8564_ $$s559259$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/32176/files/texto_completo.pdf 000032176 8564_ $$s107841$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/32176/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon 000032176 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:32176$$particulos$$pdriver 000032176 951__ $$a2021-01-21-08:17:19 000032176 980__ $$aARTICLE