Ranking the voice of customer with fuzzy DEMATEL and fuzzy AHP

Indian Journal of Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1763-1772

  Shahraki, Ali Reza ^a   Paghaleh, Morteza Jamali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FMCDM; Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy DEMATEL; Voice of customer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896885742     PISSN: 09746846     EISSN: 09745645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2011/v4i12/30323     Document Type: Article

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