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Materials selection as a significant step in engineering design process can be effectively implemented with the aid of MADM methods. The traditional MADM approaches only focus on beneficial or non-beneficial attributes to choose the optimal material; however, the selection should be made considering target values of attributes in some cases. In spite of practical applications of the target-based decision-making specially in engineering design problems, few studies have focused on the field. In the present paper, we developed a target-based MULTIMOORA method through introducing a normalization technique for materials selection in biomedical applications. We utilized two combinations of subjective, objective, and inter-attribute correlation effect significant coefficients to give importance to attributes. The information entropy and standard deviation concepts were used to assign two objective significant …