Application of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to Evaluate the Quality of E-Government Web Sites

As more and more public authorities attempt to embrace the digital revolution and place a wide range of materials on the web, from mere information to actual online services for the convenience of citizens, expectations of the service levels that sites should provide have been considerably raised, bringing up the issue of their quality evaluation. In most evaluation approaches, users are asked to provide their opinion on or weigh selected criteria through appropriate questionnaires; however their answers contain a certain level of un-determination. To this end, this paper develops an evaluation framework that overcomes this impediment by using triangular fuzzy numbers. The paper adopts Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process, a fuzzy multiple attribute decision making method, to assess the quality attributes of e-government websites.