Fig 1.
Evaluation of AM processes with MCDM methods in the literature.
Fig 2.
Flowchart of the proposed methodology.
Table 1.
Linguistic scale for Pythagorean fuzzy numbers [71].
Table 2.
Linguistic evaluations of alternatives.
Table 3.
Pythagorean fuzzy alternative assessment matrix.
Table 4.
Correlation coefficients.
Table 5.
Standard deviation σj, C index and criterion weights wj.
Table 6.
Pythagorean fuzzy decision matrix and average solution.
Table 7.
PDA, NDA, appraisal score and final ranking of alternatives.
Table 8.
Criteria weight distribution scenarios.
Table 9.
Appraisal scores and final rankings of candidates for different criterion weight distribution scenarios.
Table 10.
Decision-expert (DE) weight distributions (DE1; DE2; DE3).
Fig 3.
Criterion weights for different decision-expert weight distribution scenarios.
Table 11.
Appraisal scores and final rankings of candidates for different decision expert weight distribution scenarios.
Table 12.
Pythagorean fuzzy positive A+ and negative ideal A− solutions.
Fig 4.
Comparative analysis results.
Table 13.
Comparative analysis results.