Integrating Fuzzy C-Means and TOPSIS for performance evaluation: An application and comparative analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4186-4196

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Dhavale, Dileep ^b   Sarkis, Joseph ^c  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C Means; Performance evaluation; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; FUZZY C MEAN; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; TOPSIS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893472027     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.12.037     Document Type: Article

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