Provident decision making by considering dynamic and fuzzy environment for FMS evaluation

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4555-4584

  Saidi Mehrabad, Mohammad ^a   Anvari, Mona ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FMS; Fuzzy indices; Performance analysis; PROMETHEE; Provident decision making

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION SITUATION; DEGREE OF ROBUSTNESS; ENRICHMENT EVALUATION; FUZZY DATA; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY INDEXES; GRAPHIC AID; HIGH COSTS; INDEX VALUES; INTANGIBLE FACTORS; MANAGERIAL EXPERTISE; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PREFERENCE RANKING; PROMETHEE; REAL SYSTEMS; REAL-WORLD; STOCHASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77953627208     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540902933130     Document Type: Article

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