A new application of a fuzzy linguistic quality evaluation system in digital libraries

In this contribution, we present a new application based on fuzzy linguistic information to evaluate the quality of digital libraries. The quality evaluation of digital libraries is defined using users' perceptions on the quality of digital services provided through their Web sites. We assume a fuzzy linguistic modeling to represent the users' perception and apply automatic tools of fuzzy computing with words based on some weighted aggregation operators to compute global quality evaluations of digital libraries.

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