Quality function deployment implementation based on analytic network process with linguistic data: An application in automotive industry

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-232

  Ertay, Tijen ^a   Büyüközkan, Gülçin ^b   Kahraman, Cengiz ^a   Ruan, Da ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AHP; ANP; Car design; Fuzzy numbers; House of Quality; Linguistic data; QFD

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144466515     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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