Representational Effects on the Solving of an Unstructured Decision Problem

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 1083-1090

  Smith, Gerald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INCOMPLETE REPRESENTATIONS; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; UNSTRUCTURED DECISION PROBLEM;

DECISION THEORY AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0024739278     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.44024     Document Type: Article

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