Judgmental forecasting with interactive forecasting support systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 339-357

  Lim, Joa Sang ^a   O'Connor, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forecasting support systems; Information acquisition and utilisation; Judgmental forecasting

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION UTILIZATION; JUDGMENTAL FORECASTING;

DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION USE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030129954     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9236(95)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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