The promethee VI PROCEDURE: How to differentiate hard from soft multicriteria problems

Journal of Decision Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 213-223

  Brans, Jean Pierre ^a   Mareschal, Bertrand ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Hard and soft multicriteria problems; Multicriteria decision aid; PROMETHEE methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008655878     PISSN: 12460125     EISSN: 21167052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12460125.1995.10511652     Document Type: Article

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