Multiattribute decision aid with extended ISMAUT

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

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 507-520

  Ahn, Byeong Seok ^a  

^a Hansung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Partial information; Single decision making; Weight estimation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ESTIMATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

IMPRECISELY SPECIFIED MULTIATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; MULTIATTRIBUTE DECISION AID; PARTIAL INFORMATION; WEIGHT ESTIMATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646865243     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851346     Document Type: Article

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