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This method incorporates a number of perspectives on how to approach the fuzzy MCDM problem, as follows: (1) combining quantitative and qualitative criteria; (2) expressing criteria pair-wise comparison in linguistic terms and performance of the alternative on each criterion in linguistic terms or exact values when criterion is qualitative or quantitative, respectively; (3) converting all the assessments into trapezoidal fuzzy numbers; (4) using the difference minimization method to calculate the local weight of criteria, employing the algebraic operations of fuzzy numbers based on the concept of \u03b1-cuts; (5) calculating the global weight of criteria and the global performance of each alternative using geometric mean and the weighted sum, respectively; (6) using the centroid method to rank the alternatives. 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