Ordinal criteria in stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-127

  Lahdelma, Risto ^a   Miettinen, Kaisa ^b   Salminen, Pekka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Decision support systems; Group decision making; Multiobjective; Multiple criteria decision making; Ordinal data

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MULTICRITERIA ACCEPTABILITY ANALYSIS (SMAA);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0037449050     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00267-9     Document Type: Article

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