N-Site: A distributed consensus building and negotiation support system

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-154

  Tavana, Madjid ^a   Kennedy, Dennis T ^a  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Distributed consensus building; Group decision support systems; Multi criteria decision making; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746227587     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021962200600185X     Document Type: Article

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