Fuzziness and randomness in investment project risk appraisal

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 199-210

  Rebiasz, Bogdan ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Computer simulation; Risk analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; INVESTMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAPITAL BUDGETING; FUZZY NUMBERS; RISK ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33746239312     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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