Evaluating government websites based on a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making approach

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-343

  Büyüközkan, Gülçin ^a   Ruan, Da ^b,c  

^a GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Government websites; MCDM; Website quality

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL;

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEBSITE QUALITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 34250799332     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488507004704     Document Type: Article

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