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Owing to the complexity of a construction project, the fuzzy ANP is helpful to deal with interdependent relationships within a multi-criteria decision-making model. This paper uses the Porter’s diamond model that influences how competitive advantages, which is a matrix providing a conceptual model for the main framework, as a construct for selecting the location of a regional hospital in Taiwan to determine its effectiveness. The applicability of our proposed fuzzy ANP model is demonstrated with a case study that summarizes an intervention in which the model’s framework and basic concepts were applied.
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Wu, CR., Lin, CT. & Chen, HC. Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process. Qual Quant 43, 351–380 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-007-9125-z
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