Assessment of strategic R&D projects for car manufacturers based on the evidential reasoning approach

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-49

  Liu, Xin Bao ^a   Zhou, Mi ^a   Yang, Jian Bo ^b   Yang, Shan Lin ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning; GAHP; Multiple attribute decision analysis; Qualitative and quantitative information; Strategic R D project assessment; Utility

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT PROCESS; CAR MANUFACTURERS; DECISION ANALYSIS; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACHES; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE FACTORS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; UNIQUE FEATURES;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RAILROAD CARS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 73849136929     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.1.3     Document Type: Article

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