Providing Decisional Guidance for Multicriteria Decision Making in Groups

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 386-401

  Limayem, Moez ^a   DeSanctis, Gerardine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Decision support; Group decision support; Intelligent systems; Multicriteria decision making; User interface

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORTS; DECISIONAL GUIDANCE; GROUP DECISION SUPPORTS; INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE GROUPS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0034561873     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.4.386.11874     Document Type: Article

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