Fuzzy approach to outsourcing of information technology

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 94-98

  Mikhailov, Ludmil ^a   Tsvetinov, Petco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Decision support; Fuzzy decision making; Multi criteria decision making; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OUTSOURCING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY DECISION-MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33644510089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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