Effectiveness of visual interactive modeling in the context of multiple-criteria group decisions

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

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 298-318

  Jain, Hemant K ^a   Ramamurthy, K ^a   Sundaram, Sreedhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Zuniga Consulting Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Decision quality; Decision making efficiency; Group decision support; Information presentation; Multicriteria decisions; Satisfaction; Visual interaction modeling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DECISION QUALITY; DECISION-MAKING EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA GROUP DECISIONS; VISUAL INTERACTIVE MODELING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33244497365     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851296     Document Type: Article

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