An investigation on a prototype customer-oriented information system for product concept development

Computers in Industry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-174

  Khoo, Li Pheng ^a   Chen, Chun Hsien ^a   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Customer oriented information system; Functional attributes hierarchy (FAH); Object oriented relational database management system (OORDBMS); Product concept development

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CUSTOMER-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036795410     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(02)00081-7     Document Type: Article

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