A family of dominance rules for multiattribute decision making under uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-450

  Iyer, Naresh S ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Dominance; Multiple criteria decision making; Pareto optimality; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOUNDED UNCERTAINTY; DECISION RULES; PARETO OPTIMAL SET;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0242292130     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.817036     Document Type: Article

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