Mean-Risk Trade-Offs in Inductive Expert Systems

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-158

  Mookerjee, Vijay S ^a   Mannino, Michael V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Inductive Expert Systems; Risk Aversion in Expert Systems; Value Based System Design

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

DECISION-MAKING UNDER RISKS; INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; MEAN-RISK; RISK AVERSION; RISK-BASED; TRADE OFF; VALUE-BASED;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034416056     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.2.137.11777     Document Type: Article

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