Evaluation of design requirements using fuzzy outranking methods

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1229-1250

  Ertay, Tijen ^a   Kahraman, Cengiz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN REQUIREMENTS (DR); FUZZY OUTRANKING METHODS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 36749097248     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.7001     Document Type: Article

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