Evaluation and pre-allocation of operators with multiple skills: A combined fuzzy AHP and max-min approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2043-2053

  Şen, Ceyda Güngör ^a   Çinar, Gökçe ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy AHP; Max min approach; Multiple skills; Operator allocation; Pre allocation decisions

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION DECISION; ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES; FUZZY AHP; MAX-MIN; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL TESTS; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERFORMANCE VARIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS;

EID: 70449729593     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.06.075     Document Type: Article

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