Comparing the apple ipad and non-apple camp tablet PCs: A multicriteria decision analysis

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages S256-S284

  Tsai, Pei Hsuan ^a   Chang, Shun Chiao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Fuzzy AHP; Multiple criteria decision making; Product innovation; Tablet PCs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904184059     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2013.881929     Document Type: Article

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