Using soft computing to build real world intelligent decision support systems in uncertain domains

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 263-285

  Zeleznikow, John ^a   Nolan, James R ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation of decision support systems; Fuzzy reasoning; Knowledge discovery; Neural networks; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GAME THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

SOFT COMPUTING; SPLIT-UP THEORY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035370859     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(00)00135-4     Document Type: Article

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