Evaluating suppliers via a total integral value based fuzzy MCDM approach

Asia Pacific Management Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 521-534

  Chu, Ta Chung ^a   Lin, Rong Ho ^b  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy MCDM; Normalization; Ranking; Suppliers; Total integral value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861771068     PISSN: 10293132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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