A fuzzy decision support system for selecting the facility site of multinational enterprises

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 151-162

  Lin, Lily ^a   Lee, Huey Ming ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Facility site selection; Fuzzy sets theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049154143     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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