A New Extension of the VIKORSort-Based Method for Fuzzy Classification: An Application for Prioritizing Patients in the ICU Unit Queue

Authors

  • Afsaneh Davodabadi * Department of Mathematics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Saber Saati Department of Mathematics, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0636-1192

https://doi.org/10.48314/jidcm.v1i2.67

Abstract

Due to the importance of the field of health in people’s lives, the use of different sciences in order to improve this field for the comfort of people has expanded significantly in recent years. Considering that the ranking field can have many applications in different parts of the health field, such as hospitals, emergency departments, pharmacies, and related necessities, in this study, we have tried to use one of these fields and review it. Patients who enter the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward for emergency services are inadvertently placed in waiting queues. In this study, the ordering of this queue was investigated by a mathematical model. Applications of multi-criteria decision-making systems should be discussed. In this research, we develop the Vlse Kriterijumsk Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje Sort (VIKORSort) method based on fuzzy logic. Then, the performance of the newly proposed method is investigated with a real-world application for prioritizing and admitting patients to the ICUs of the hospital.

Keywords:

Vlse kriterijumsk optimizacija kompromisno resenje sort, Multi-criteria decision making, Intensive care unit, Fuzzy, Sorting, Decision making

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2025-06-12

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Journal of Intelligent Decision and Computational Modelling (JIDCM)

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How to Cite

Davodabadi, A. ., & Saati, S. . (2025). A New Extension of the VIKORSort-Based Method for Fuzzy Classification: An Application for Prioritizing Patients in the ICU Unit Queue. Journal of Intelligent Decision and Computational Modelling, 1(2), 87-106. https://doi.org/10.48314/jidcm.v1i2.67

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