  Ranking intuitionistic fuzzy sets with distance based ranking methods
requires to calculate the distance between intuitionistic fuzzy set and a
reference point which is known to have either maximum (positive ideal solution)
or minimum (negative ideal solution) value. These group of approaches assume
that as the distance of an intuitionistic fuzzy set to the reference point is
decreases, the similarity of intuitionistic fuzzy set with that point
increases. This is a misconception because an intuitionistic fuzzy set which
has the shortest distance to positive ideal solution does not have to be the
furthest from negative ideal solution for all circumstances when the distance
function is nonlinear. This paper gives a mathematical proof of why this
assumption is not valid for any of the non-linear distance functions and
suggests a hypervolume based ranking approach as an alternative to distance
based ranking. In addition, the suggested ranking approach is extended as a new
multicriteria decision making method, HyperVolume based ASsessment (HVAS). HVAS
is applied for multicriteria assessment of Turkey's energy alternatives.
Results are compared with three well known distance based multicriteria
decision making methods (TOPSIS, VIKOR, and CODAS).
