A decision support methodology for stochastic multi-criteria linear programming using spreadsheets

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-116

  Novak, David C ^a   Ragsdale, Cliff T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Multi criteria optimization; Spreadsheets; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPREADSHEETS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037573557     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00130-6     Document Type: Article

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