A new approach to decision-making with key constraint and its application in enterprise information systems

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-308

  Xu, W X ^a   Xu, L ^a,b   Liu, X M ^c   Jones, James D ^d,e  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Enterprise application; Enterprise information systems; Fuzzy evaluation; Key constraint; Technology selection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

DECISION-MAKING; ENTERPRISE APPLICATION; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; FUZZY EVALUATION; KEY CONSTRAINT; TECHNOLOGY SELECTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 50949110067     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517570802302341     Document Type: Article

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