A demand forecasting methodology for fuzzy environments

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-139

  Kabak, Özgür ^a   Ülengin, Füsun ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Do u University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Fuzzy demand forecast; Objective weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950175584     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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