Flexible Manufacturing System selection based on grey relation under uncertainty

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 516-534

  Dhal, Prasant Ranjan ^a   Datta, Saurav ^a   Mahapatra, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

FMS selection; Fuzzy multi criteria decision making; Grey relation; Membership function

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954476859     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2011.039667     Document Type: Article

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