Authors:
Kin Chung Liu
1
;
Dennis F. Kehoe
1
and
Dong Li
2
Affiliations:
1
The Aimes Centre, the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
;
2
The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), system design, technology selection, system specification.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Software Engineering
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
Selection of technology in IT projects is recognized as a multi-criteria decision-making (MDCM) problem because it is important to incorporate multiple opinions from people and consider the interdependence among criteria (Lee and Kim, 2000). Various techniques were proposed to address the technology selection problems and some of them, such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (e.g. Bard, 1986), were proved effective in literatures. However, technology selection problem in a system development project can be viewed as a system design activity and there is lack of literatures view technology selection from system design perspective and integrate it with other system design activity. The research argues that AHP can be applied to generate technology specification and other useful information for system design purpose, in additions of technology selection. A high-level system design framework and the FAHP-based technology selection and specification (TSS) methodology are presented in thi
s paper.
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