Evaluation of Selected Industries in the Stock Exchange of Iran Using the Linear Programming Approach and Multiple Attribute Decision Making

One of investments to increase the wealth of investors is investment in the stock exchange. The purpose of this paper is ranking of cement and plaster, petroleum products (production of petrochemicals refined products), tile and ceramic, automotive (manufacture of motor vehicles) industries of stock exchange to help the investors for investment decisions. This research aims to develop a methodology for solving MADM problems with both ratings of alternatives on attributes and weights being expressed with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In this methodology, a weighted absolute distance between intuitionistic fuzzy sets is defined using weights of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, two simpler auxiliary linear programming models being used to calculate the relative closeness coefficient of ideal solution, based on the concept of likelihood of interval numbers, we rank alternatives. The required data is extracted during 1393 to 1394 mainly through audited financial statements data from rahavard novin software. the final results of this study indicate that petroleum products, cement and plaster, tile and ceramic, automotive industries respectively, have the highest rank.