Evaluation of Science and Technology Parks by Using Fuzzy Expert System

Volume 2, Issue 4, pp 594--606 http://dx.doi.org/10.22436/jmcs.02.04.04

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Hamid Eslami Nosratabadi - Member of Young Researchers Club, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Sanaz Pourdarab - Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Abbasian - Department of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The science parks have important role in development of technology and are able to make economic growth of the countries. The purpose of this article is the presentation of a fuzzy expert system to evaluate the science and technology parks. One of the problems for evaluating Science and Technology parks is to have the high number of criteria and science parks and presenting a system which is able to compare this high number of science parks, with many criteria, is one of the findings of this paper. At the end, we have described a numerical example. This article is an useful information resource for managers of Science and Technology parks and interested parties to invest and to recognize the science parks better.

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Keywords

• Science and technology parks
• Fuzzy expert systems
• Fuzzy logic

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•  90B20
•  90C59
•  68T35

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