The analysis of assumptions in model bases using metagraphs

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 982-995

  Basu, Amit ^a   Blanning, Robert W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Decision Support Systems; Graph Theory; Information Systems; Model Management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

METAGRAPHS; VALUE BASED ASSUMPTIONS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0032116190     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.7.982     Document Type: Article

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