A prescriptive production-distribution approach for decision making in new product design

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 336-348

  Whitcomb, Clifford A ^a   Palli, Naveen ^a   Azarm, Shapour ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision based product design; Group decision making; Multiattribute decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

INTEGRATED PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN (IPPD);

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032640474     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.777070     Document Type: Article

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