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Feasibility study of the tactical design justification for reconfigurable manufacturing systems using the fuzzy analytical hierarchical process

M. R. Abdi
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A. W. Labib *
Pages 3055-3076 | Received 01 Feb 2004, Published online: 21 Feb 2007

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