A comparative analysis of information acquisition mechanisms for discrete resource allocation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-209

  Shao, Benjamin B M ^a   Raghav Rao, H ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Discrete resource allocation; Entropy; Information acquisition; Information economics; Merging; Ranking; Utility function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COST ACCOUNTING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

INFORMATION ACQUISITION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS (RAP);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0035329958     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.925660     Document Type: Article

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