Assessing candidate industrial technologies utilising hierarchical fuzzy decision making systems

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-206

  Vrana, Ivan ^a   Aly, Shady ^b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Engineering Department   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Analytical Hierarchy Process; Fuzzy Logics; Hierarchical Fuzzy Decision Making; Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems; Industrial and systems engineering; Technology Transfer

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION PROBLEMS; HIERARCHICAL FUZZY; HIERARCHICAL FUZZY SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERINGS; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION; TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77955239137     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2010.034336     Document Type: Article

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