A Framework for Analyzing the Information Monitoring and Decision Support System Investment Tradeoff Dilemma: An Application to Crisis Management

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 352-359

  Belardo, Salvatore ^a   Pazer, Harold L ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MONITORING; INFORMATION RESOURCES; VALIDITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029408421     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: 15580040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.482084     Document Type: Article

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