Pursuing excellence in firm core knowledge through intelligent group decision support system

Industrial Management & Data Systems

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-296

  Lin, Chinho ^a   Hsu, Ming Lung ^a   Liu, Andrea ^b   Ju Chuan, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Tatung Institute of Commerce and Technology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Fuzzy logic; Knowledge management; Programming

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY PROGRAMMING; GAP ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL METHODS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 40849120045     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570810858723     Document Type: Article

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