Integrating Expert Systems With Group Decision Support Systems

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 75-95

  Aiken, Milam W ^a   Liu Sheng, Olivia R ^a   Vogel, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial intelligence; expert systems; group decision support systems; knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039187861     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/103731.103735     Document Type: Article

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