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A Novel Integrated AHP-QFD Model for Software Project Selection under Fuzziness

by Tuli Bakshi, Bijan Sarkar, Subir Kumar Sanyal
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 54 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Tuli Bakshi, Bijan Sarkar, Subir Kumar Sanyal
10.5120/8581-2327

Tuli Bakshi, Bijan Sarkar, Subir Kumar Sanyal . A Novel Integrated AHP-QFD Model for Software Project Selection under Fuzziness. International Journal of Computer Applications. 54, 7 ( September 2012), 36-43. DOI=10.5120/8581-2327

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author = { Tuli Bakshi, Bijan Sarkar, Subir Kumar Sanyal },
title = { A Novel Integrated AHP-QFD Model for Software Project Selection under Fuzziness },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2012 },
volume = { 54 },
number = { 7 },
month = { September },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 36-43 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume54/number7/8581-2327/ },
doi = { 10.5120/8581-2327 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Now-a-days software manufacturing companies usually try to capture market share with rapid software development. Actually the development of high quality software products can decrease cost by reducing rework and increasing productivity. For that, reason selection of software projects is an important task. Several factors come into consideration while selection of proper project for a specified job. To deal with this typical situation the current researchers combined the much known AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) with QFD (Quality Function Deployment). Here the AHP method redefined under fuzziness. Then QFD process is applied to identifying and ranking customer's need and translating them into product / service specification. At the last sensitivity analysis has been done to make the process more robust from the characterization of integration of the fuzzy AHP & QFD.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Quality Function Deployment AHP Fuzziness Project selection