Representing asymmetric decision problems using coarse valuations

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-135

  Liu, Liping ^a,b   Shenoy, Prakash P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric decision problems; Belief functions; Decision support systems; Expert systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

ASSYMETRIC DECISION PROBLEMS; BELIEF FUNCTIONS; COARSE VALUATIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842558693     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00210-5     Document Type: Article

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