Title :
Fuzzy measures for service quality of fuzzy numbers
Author :
Chen, Cheng-Che ; Lai, Chun-Mei ; Liu, Hsu-San
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Marketing & Logistics Manage., Far East Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
In order to increase a company´s competition edge, the main focus of a management strategy is to improve service quality. Indentifying the dimensions of the service quality would definitely help managers in the challenge of improving the service quality. This study is to presents an fuzzy approach to evaluate service quality. Two evaluation indices, optimistic-expectation index (OEI) and pessimistic-expectation index (PEI), are used to evaluate the true perception of service quality from customers. This presented approach is very flexible since the value and domain of the triangular fuzzy number are defined by customer themselves. An empirical study is conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented approach.
Keywords :
customer services; fuzzy set theory; quality control; strategic planning; customer service; fuzzy measures; fuzzy numbers; management strategy; optimistic-expectation index; pessimistic-expectation index; service quality improvement; Companies; Decision making; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Indexes; Pragmatics; Probability; fuzzy sets; linguistic variable; service quality; triangular fuzzy number;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8501-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-3611
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674477