Supplier evaluation with GD-based multi criteria decision making

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 368-381

  Noor E Alam, Md ^a   Ahsan Akhtar Hasin, M ^b   Sharif Ullah, A M M ^a   Ferdousi Lipi, Tahmina ^a  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Alpha cut; Fuzzy logic; Supplier evaluation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; LINGUISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-CUT; FUZZY ALGEBRA; SUPPLIER EVALUATION PROCESS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 40749148826     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2008.017425     Document Type: Article

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