Multicriteria Fuzzy Evaluation of Project Success in R&D Projects

• Authors: Kuchta Dorota
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper reviews the state of art in project success evaluation, especially with respect to R&D projects, with emphasis on the ambiguity of such evaluation, its strong dependence on the con-text and on the evaluator. We also recall basic information about fuzzy numbers and propose the concept of fuzzy rules which are used in the suggested procedure of R&D project evaluation. The procedure is described and illustrated by means of a real- -world case study.

Keywords

EN

Fuzzy sets; Project success; Research and development project

PL

Projekt badawczo-rozwojowy; Sukces projektu; Zbiory rozmyte

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 44-59

Contributors

author

Kuchta Dorota

• Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Wrocław, Poland.

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Identifiers

ISSN

2084-1531