An order acceptance using FAHP and TOPSIS methods: A case study of Iranian vehicle belt production industry

International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-224

  Parsaei, Saeid ^a   Keramati, Mohammad Ali ^a   Zorriassatine, Farbod ^b   Feylizadeh, Mohammad Reza ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FAHP; Fuzzy set theory; Multi criteria decision making; Order acceptance; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871320746     PISSN: 19232926     EISSN: 19232934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.ijiec.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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