Conflicting criteria, cooperating processors-some experiments on implementing a multicriteria decision support method on a parallel computer

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 805-817

  Dias, Luis C ^a   Costa, João P ^a   Clímaco, João N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRE III MULTIPLE CRITERIA OUTRANKING METHOD;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031232783     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(97)00001-4     Document Type: Article

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