Incorporating utility and cloud theories for owner evaluation in tendering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5894-5899

  Liao, Liangcai ^a   Guo, William W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud theory; Decision making; Multi attribute evaluation; Owner evaluation; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

CLOUD THEORY; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; EVALUATION MODELS; EVALUATION PROBLEMS; FUZZY THEORY; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; OWNER EVALUATION; PROJECT LIFE CYCLE; PROJECT OWNERS; TENDER EVALUATION; UNCERTAIN FACTORS; UTILITY THEORY;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84855884189     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.116     Document Type: Article

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