Organizational decision making and distributed information

Systems Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-81

  Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; NON LINEAR; ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY; TASK ENVIRONMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY;

EID: 0032304398     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6858(1998)1:1<70::AID-SYS7>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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