Using a hybrid method to evaluate service innovation in the hotel industry

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 28, Issue , 2015, Pages 411-421

  Tseng, Ming Lang ^a   Lin, Yuan Hsu ^b   Lim, Ming K ^c   Teehankee, Benito L ^d  

^a LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^d DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Choquet integral; Qualitative scales; Quantitative scales; Service innovation; TODIM; Triangular fuzzy numbers

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; HOT SPRINGS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

CHOQUET INTEGRAL; QUALITATIVE SCALE; QUANTITATIVE SCALES; SERVICE INNOVATION; TODIM; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 84920178244     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.11.048     Document Type: Article

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