Development of a fuzzy ANP based SWOT analysis for the airline industry in Turkey

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-24

  Sevkli, Mehmet ^a   Oztekin, Asil ^b   Uysal, Ozgur ^a   Torlak, Gökhan ^a   Turkyilmaz, Ali ^a   Delen, Dursun ^c  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline industry; Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy ANP; Fuzzy logic; Multi criteria decision making; Strategy management; SWOT analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY ANP; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; STRATEGY MANAGEMENT; SWOT ANALYSIS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; FUZZY LOGIC; INDUSTRY; PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 81855221798     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.06.047     Document Type: Article

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