A New Centroids Method for Ranking of Trapezoid Fuzzy Numbers

Ranking fuzzy numbers has become an important process in decision making. Many ranking methods have been proposed thus far and one of the commonly used is centroid of trapezoid. However, there is still no agreement on the method that can always provide a satisfactory solution to every situation. This paper aims to propose a new method of centroid using the circumcenter. The calculation for the circumcenter is derived from the trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and a series of the proposed steps. The proposed method offers a straightforward calculation by considering the centroid in each part of trapezoid to obtain a new centroid which eventually becomes the circumcenter. The Euclidean distance is used to calculate the ranking function from the circumcenter of centroids and the original point. A numerical example is given to illustrate the proposed method. At the end of this paper, a comparison of centroid method between the proposed method and other methods is presented.