Multi-attribute evaluation of website quality in e-business using an integrated fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS methodology

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 301-314

  Kaya, Tolga ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; E business; Fuzzy; Multicriteria; TOPSIS; Website quality

Indexed keywords

AHP; EBUSINESS; FUZZY; MULTI-CRITERIA; TOPSIS; WEBSITE QUALITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY LOGIC; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78650698875     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.3.6     Document Type: Article

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