Evaluation of alternatives for product customization using fuzzy logic

Information Sciences

Volumn 158, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 233-262

  Tsai, Hung Cheng ^a   Hsiao, Shih Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternatives; Analytic hierarchy process; Customer needs; Fuzzy; Internet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

CUSTOMER NEEDS; PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATIONS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0242440173     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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