Reliability-based foreign supplier selection using fuzzy-AHP

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 245-262

  Jitrawichawet, Supawadee ^a   Sarfaraz, Ahmad ^a   Jenab, Kouroush ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Society of Reliability Engineering Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foreign supplier; Fuzzy AHP; Outsourcing; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; RELIABILITY;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; FOREIGN SUPPLIERS; FUZZY AHP; QUANTITATIVE FACTORS; RELIABILITY-BASED; UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84879576274     PISSN: 17558077     EISSN: 17558085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2013.054946     Document Type: Article

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