32176 20210121082904.0 doi 10.15446/dyna.v82n191.51140 sideral 90622 ART-2015-90622 spa Aguarón, Juan A new synthesis procedure for TOPSIS based on AHP 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Vega 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]. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2011-24181 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.238 2015 Engineering (miscellaneous) 2015 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Escobar, María Teresa García-Alcaraz, Jorge Luis (orcid)0000-0002-5037-6976 Moreno Jiménez, José María Universidad de Zaragoza Vega, Alberto 4008 623 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Métodos Cuant.Econ.Empres 82, 191 (2015), 11-19 DYNA (Medellin) Dyna 0012-7353 559259 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/32176/files/texto_completo.pdf 107841 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/32176/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon oai:zaguan.unizar.es:32176 articulos driver 2021-01-21-08:17:19 ARTICLE