Pluralistic multi-agent decision support system: A framework and an empirical test

Information and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 883-898

  Vahidov, Rustam ^a   Fazlollahi, Bijan ^b  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critiquing systems; Decision support systems; Intelligent agents; Multi agent systems; Pluralistic models

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CRITIQUING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (DAI); PLURALISTIC MODELS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342467400     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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