EVALUATION OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS USING INTERVAL VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY-Z NUMBERS

The use of online education tools has increased rapidly with the transition to distance education caused by the pandemic. The obligation to carry out all activities of face-to-face education online made it very important for the tools used in distance education to meet the increasing needs. In line with these needs, radical changes have occurred in the learning management systems used in distance education. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to determine the features that the systems used in distance education should have and to compare the existing systems according to these features. For this purpose, a novel fuzzy extension, interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy Z-numbers, is defined for modeling uncertainty, and AHP and WASPAS methods using proposed fuzzy numbers are developed to determine the importance of decision criteria and compare alternatives.

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E-Learning, Interval Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Z-Numbers Fuzzy AHP, Fuzzy WASPAS,

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