A hybrid fuzzy MCDM approach for evaluating website quality of professional accounting firms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2783-2793

  Chou, Wen Chin ^a   Cheng, Yi Ping ^b  

^a YU DA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CPA firms; Fuzzy analytic network process (FANP); Fuzzy VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (FVIKOR); Website quality

Indexed keywords

CPA FIRMS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; FUZZY ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; FUZZY MCDM; FUZZY VLSEKRITERIJUMSKA OPTIMIZACIJA I KOMPROMISNO RESENJE (FVIKOR); HYBRID APPROACH; PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISION; UNDERSTANDABILITY; WEB SITE DESIGN; WEBSITE QUALITY;

DECISION THEORY; FUZZY LOGIC; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80255123381     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.138     Document Type: Article

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