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Assessment of Vaccination Strategies Using Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Making

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy and Neuro Computing (FANCCO - 2015)

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Alternative selection of vaccination strategy has become a challenging task for the public health, and it is considered as a complex decision making problem. Decision makers often use linguistic variables to rate the alternatives. The objective of this research is to use fuzzy logic based VIKOR method for evaluating H1N1 Influenza vaccination strategies. The experimental design of the proposed decision making model is illustrated with a case study in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. The alternative of a vaccination strategy considered in this study includes the combination of “people”, “spatial” and “temporal”.

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This work is fully supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India under Award Number 32/1/2010-ECD-I.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Daphne Lopez & M. Gunasekaran

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  3. Indian Statistical Institute, Electronics and Communication Sci Unit, Kolkata, India

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Lopez, D., Gunasekaran, M. (2015). Assessment of Vaccination Strategies Using Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Making. In: Ravi, V., Panigrahi, B., Das, S., Suganthan, P. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy and Neuro Computing (FANCCO - 2015). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 415. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27212-2_16

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