Development of the hybrid weight assessment system for multiple quality attributes

Quality Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-89

  Sopadang, Apichat ^a   Cho, Byung Rae ^b   Leonard, Michael ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvector; Entropy method; Fuzzy sets; Multiple quality attributes; Simulation; Weight assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; FUZZY SETS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

WEIGHT ASSESSMENT METHOD;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 0036754559     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-120006712     Document Type: Article

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