Theme-based comprehensive evaluation in new product development using fuzzy hierarchical criteria group decision-making method

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2236-2246

  Lu, Jie ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Zhang, Guangquan ^a   Zhu, Yijun ^b   Zeng, Xianyi ^c   Koehl, Ludovic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c GEMTEX   (France)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; digital ecosystems; fuzzy sets; multicriteria decision making (MCDM); new product development (NPD); product evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION MODEL; CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE; DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM; DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION MODELS; FUZZY NUMBERS; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; HANDLING CRITERIA; HIERARCHICAL CRITERIA; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN COGNITION; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; PRODUCT EVALUATION; PRODUCT PROTOTYPE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79956281493     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2096171     Document Type: Article

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