Quality characteristics (QCs) prioritization is a criterial issue in QFD. However, due to its own
inherent flaws, QFD is in a difficult situation in practical applications. As an effective method …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a product planning management instrument which has
been used in a broad range of industries. However, the traditional QFD method has been …

As a customer-driven quality improvement tool, quality function deployment (QFD) can
convert customer requirements (CRs) into appropriate engineering characteristics (ECs) in …

As a powerful instrument to fulfil customer needs, quality function deployment (QFD) is
capable of converting customer requirements (CRs) into appropriate engineering …

Carrying out emergency rescue in coordination with multiple organizations, is of great
significance for the effectiveness and timeliness of emergency response. Therefore, this …

Accurate assessment of engineering characteristics in the design phase is vital for complex
products because it can effectively determine the orientation of subsequent design practice …

The rapid development of information technologies yields a promising market for information
densely products, ie smart, connected products (SCPs) and also alters the way of user …

Multi-granular fuzzy linguistic modeling enables evaluators to express opinions with several
linguistic term sets, but it cannot simultaneously reflect hesitancy and preference degrees of …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a powerful customer-driven quality management tool
that improves product quality by translating customer requirements (CRs) into design …

This study aims to deal with hesitant fuzzy linguistic multi-criteria group decision-making
(MCGDM) problems with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic term sets. Firstly, a signed …