A fuzzy group analytical hierarchy process approach for software quality assurance management: Fuzzy logarithmic least squares method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 10292-10302

  Yuen, Kevin Kam Fung ^a   Lau, Henry C W ^b  

^a ZIRVE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Fuzzy group analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Software engineering; Software project evaluation; Software quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION ANALYSIS; FUZZY GROUPS; FUZZY NUMBERS; FUZZY PRIORITIZATION; FUZZY SCORE; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; IN-HOUSE DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LOGARITHMIC LEAST SQUARES; PRIORITIZATION; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; RATING SCALE; RESCALING FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE PROJECT EVALUATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; THIRD-PARTY DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 79953703106     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.057     Document Type: Article

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