Supporting decision making in technology standards battles based on a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 336-348

  Van De Kaa, Geerten ^a   Van Heck, Eric ^b   De Vries, Henk J ^b   Van Den Ende, Jan ^b   Rezaei, Jafar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy network process; decision support systems; decisions under risk and uncertainty; fuzzy and gray systems; management of innovation; strategic management of ITT; technology diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHIES; GRAY SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION; RISK AND UNCERTAINTY; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

STANDARDS;

EID: 84899564194     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2013.2292579     Document Type: Article

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