Decision Support Systems in action: Integrated application in a multicriteria decision aid process

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-335

  Bana E Costa, Carlos A ^a   Ensslin, Leonardo ^b   Corrêa, Émerson C ^b   Vansnick, Jean Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision Support Systems; Multicriteria Analysis; Real world application

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033102260     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00219-7     Document Type: Article

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