An image construction method for visualizing managerial data

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 371-387

  Zhang, Ping ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making support; Information visualization; Manufacturing production planning; Project scheduling with resource constraints and cash flow

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION PLANNING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032178736     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(98)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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