The evidential reasoning approach for multi-attribute decision analysis under interval uncertainty

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1914-1943

  Xu, Dong Ling ^a   Yang, Jian Bo ^a   Wang, Ying Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Evidential reasoning; Intelligent decision system; Interval uncertainty modelling; Multiple attribute decision analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EVIDENTIAL REASONING; INTELLIGENT DECISION SYSTEMS; INTERVAL UNCERTAINTY MODELLING; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION ANALYSIS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 33746781813     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.02.064     Document Type: Article

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