Ranking state financial management: A multilevel fuzzy rule-based system

Decision Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 449-481

  Ammar, Salwa ^a   Wright, Ronald ^a   Selden, Sally ^b  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budget and Planning; Fuzzy Set Theory; Performance Evaluation; Rule based System

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039029324     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb01630.x     Document Type: Article

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