Research Article

Alleviating Energy Poverty through Renewable Energy Technology: An Investigation Using a Best-Worst Method-Based Quality Function Deployment Approach with Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers

Table 5

Linguistic terms for pair-wise comparison of criteria [19].

Linguistic termsIVIFNs

Equally important (EI)([1.0, 1.0], [0.0, 0.0])
Weakly important (WI)([0.5, 0.6], [0.3, 0.4])
Strongly important (SI)([0.6, 0.7], [0.2, 0.3])
Very important (VI)([0.7, 0.8], [0.1, 0.2])
Absolutely important (AI)([0.8, 0.9], [0.1, 0.2])