A fuzzy group decision-making approach in quality function deployment

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 527-540

  Liu, Chin Hung ^a   Wu, Hsin Hung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy group decision making; Fuzzy preference relation; House of quality; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849142586     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9151-x     Document Type: Article

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