Fuzzy Based Decision Making Approach for Evaluating the Severity of COVID-19 Pandemic in Cities of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

作     者：Abdullah Baz Hosam Alhakami 

作者机构：Department of Computer EngineeringCollege of Computer and Information SystemsUmm Al-Qura UniversityMakkahSaudi Arabia Department of Computer ScienceCollege of Computer and Information SystemsUmm Al-Qura UniversityMakkahSaudi Arabia 

出 版 物：《Computers, Materials & Continua》 (计算机、材料和连续体（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第66卷第2期

页      面：1155-1174页

核心收录：

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 0808[工学-电气工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 07[理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0701[理学-数学] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 070101[理学-基础数学] 

基　　金：Research and Development Grants Program for National Research Institutions and Centers(GRANTS) Target Research Program Infections Diseases Research Grant Program King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology(KACST) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia grant number(5-20-01-007-0028) 

主　　题：Kingdom of Saudi Arabia COVID-19 severity assessment fuzzy AHP dynamics of infection 

摘      要：The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11,2020 stating that it is a worldwide danger and requires imminent preventive strategies to minimise the loss of ***-19 has now affected millions across 211 countries in the world and the numbers continue to *** information discharged by the WHO till June 15,2020 reports 8,063,990 cases of *** the world thinks about the lethal malady for which there is yet no immunization or a predefined course of drug,the nations are relentlessly working at the most ideal preventive systems to contain the *** Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(KSA)is additionally combating with the COVID-19 danger as the cases announced till June 15,2020 reached the count of 132,048 with 1,011 *** to the report released by the KSA on June 14,2020,more than 4,000 cases of COVID-19 pandemic had been registered in the *** to the impending requirement for successful preventive instruments to stem the fatalities caused by the disease,our examination expects to assess the severity of COVID-19 pandemic in cities of *** addition,computational model for evaluating the severity of COVID-19 with the perspective of social influence factor is necessary for controlling the ***,a quantitative evaluation of severity associated with specific regions and cities of KSA would be a more effective reference for the healthcare sector in Saudi ***,this paper has taken the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)technique for quantitatively assessing the severity of COVID-19 pandemic in cities of *** discoveries and the proposed structure would be a practical,expeditious and exceptionally precise evaluation system for assessing the severity of the pandemic in the cities of *** these urban zones clearly emerge as the COVID-19 *** cities require suggestive measures of health organizations that must be introduced on a war footing basis to counter the *** analy