An evidential reasoning based approach for quality function deployment under uncertainty

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5684-5694

  Chin, Kwai Sang ^a   Wang, Ying Ming ^b   Yang, Jian Bo ^c   Gary Poon, Ka Kwai ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning; Group decision making; Preference programming; Quality function deployment; Uncertainty modeling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; GROUP DECISION MAKING; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENTS (QFD); TEAM MEMBERS; UNCERTAINTY MODELING;

SALES;

EID: 58349088067     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.104     Document Type: Article

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