Prioritizing and fulfilling quality attributes for virtual lab development through application of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and software development guidelines

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-19

  Chong, Chun Yong ^a   Lee, Sai Peck ^a   Ling, Teck Chaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; Priority assessment; Quality attributes; Software development guideline; Virtual lab

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896540438     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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