Supporting consensus formation in Group Support Systems using the Qualitative Discriminant Process

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 71, Issue , 1997, Pages 75-91

  Bryson, Noel ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Group decision making; Group support systems; Imprecision; Prioritization; Ranking; Rating; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031499154     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018983818299     Document Type: Article

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