An integrated decision support system dealing with qualitative and quantitative objectives for enterprise software selection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5272-5283

  Şen, Ceyda Güngör ^a   Baraçli, Hayri ^a   Şen, Selçuk ^b   Başligil, Hüseyin ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Audio Electronics   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Enterprise software selection; ERP; Fuzzy multi criteria decision making procedure; Multi objective programming; Qualitative and quantitative objectives

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRONIC COMPANIES; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SELECTION; FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROCEDURE; INTEGRATED DECISION; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; OBJECTIVE STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE OBJECTIVES; SELECTION DECISIONS;

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE;

EID: 58749117431     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.070     Document Type: Article

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