Sensitivity and robustness in selection problems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 607-622

  Jessop, Alan ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Multicriteria decision analysis; Robustness; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LINEAR MULTIATTRIBUTE UTILITY MODEL; SELECTION PROBLEMS; WEIGHT IMPRECISION;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SELECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346640276     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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