Evaluation of services using a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-33

  Mikhailov, L ^a   Tsvetinov, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision support; Fuzzy decision making; Multi criteria decision making; Service pre negotiations

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; FUZZY SETS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORT; FUZZY DECISION MAKING; FUZZY NUMBERS; HIERARCHY PROCESS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NON-LINEAR PROGRAMS; SERVICE EVALUATION PROCESS; SERVICE PRE-NEGOTIATIONS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

EID: 7444229279     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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