An Integrated Structure for Supplier Selection and Configuration of Knowledge-Based Networks Using QFD, ANP, and Mixed-Integer Programming Model

Table 1

Linguistic variables used to express the relative importance of the attributes.

Linguistic term	Fuzzy numbers
Very low	(0, 0, 0.1)
Low	(0, 0.1, 0.3)
Medium low	(0.1, 0.3, 0.5)
Medium	(0.3, 0.5, 0.7)
Medium high	(0.5, 0.7, 0.9)
High	(0.7, 0.9, 1)
Very high	(0.9, 1, 1)