Evaluation and precedence of factors affects telecom service quality by AHP and fuzzy analysis

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-40

  Chaudhary, Amit ^a   Uprety, Indu ^a  

^a GAUTAM BUDDHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytical hierarchical process; Fuzzy logic; Indian telecom market; Service quality evaluation; Telecom service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930447471     PISSN: 1758938X     EISSN: 17589398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2015.068298     Document Type: Article

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