Selecting the high - performing departments within universities applying the fuzzy MADM methods

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2646-2654

  Rouyendegh, Babak Daneshvar ^a  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Fully rank; Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP); Multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Multi attribute decision making (MADM); Triangular fuzzy numbers (TFN)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960866242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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