Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Fuzzy multi‐attribute cost–benefit analysis of e‐services

Fuzzy multi‐attribute cost–benefit analysis of e‐services E‐service evaluation is a complex problem in which many qualitative attributes must be considered. These kinds of attributes make the evaluation process hard and vague. Cost–benefit analyses applied to various areas are usually based on the data under certainty or risk. In case of uncertain, vague, and/or linguistic data, the fuzzy set theory can be used to handle the analysis. In this article, after the evaluation attributes of e‐services and the fuzzy multi‐attribute decision‐making methods are introduced, a fuzzy hierarchical TOPSIS model is developed and applied to an e‐service provider selection problem with some sensitivity analyses. The developed model is a useful tool for the companies that prefer outsourcing for e‐activities. It is shown that service systems can be effectively evaluated by the proposed method. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 22: 547–565, 2007. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Intelligent Systems Wiley

Fuzzy multi‐attribute cost–benefit analysis of e‐services

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/fuzzy-multi-attribute-cost-benefit-analysis-of-e-services-aZzoxTpK0q

References (29)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0884-8173
eISSN
1098-111X
DOI
10.1002/int.20213
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

E‐service evaluation is a complex problem in which many qualitative attributes must be considered. These kinds of attributes make the evaluation process hard and vague. Cost–benefit analyses applied to various areas are usually based on the data under certainty or risk. In case of uncertain, vague, and/or linguistic data, the fuzzy set theory can be used to handle the analysis. In this article, after the evaluation attributes of e‐services and the fuzzy multi‐attribute decision‐making methods are introduced, a fuzzy hierarchical TOPSIS model is developed and applied to an e‐service provider selection problem with some sensitivity analyses. The developed model is a useful tool for the companies that prefer outsourcing for e‐activities. It is shown that service systems can be effectively evaluated by the proposed method. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 22: 547–565, 2007.

Journal

International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley

Published: May 1, 2007

There are no references for this article.