Facilitating the use of multi-attribute utility theory in expert systems: an aid for identifying the right relative importance weights of attributes

Expert Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-1102

  Mussi, Silvano ^a  

^a CILEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION PROBLEMS; MULTI ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032637775     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00098     Document Type: Article

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