Modelling risk and uncertainty with the analytic hierarchy process

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-107

  Millet, Ido ^a   Wedley, William C ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Multiple criteria; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944460061     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.319     Document Type: Article

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