Multiple criteria decision making in distribution system planning

Abstract

Making a decision with taking into account many criteria under uncertainty cases is really tough problem for decision authorities in all business sectors. In order to handle the problem, multi-criteria decision making techniques are developed. Multi-criteria decision problem is come up for planning engineers in electricity distribution sector to select the best solution. In this paper, three different planning solutions for problems in the sample distribution system are evaluated by using TOPSIS technique to decide the best option. For understanding the importance of weight coefficients, these evaluations are done under three different cases. The results show that the weight of each criteria can affect the decision directly.