An evaluation method for innovation capability based on uncertain linguistic variables

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 256, Issue , 2015, Pages 160-174

  Yang, Changhui ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Ding, Shuai ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Innovation capability; Uncertain linguistic variables

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; EVALUATION; EVALUATION INDICATORS; INNOVATION ABILITIES; INNOVATION CAPABILITY; KNOWLEDGE CAPABILITIES; PROCESS CAPABILITIES; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC VARIABLES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84922009075     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.12.154     Document Type: Article

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