Intelligent decision system and its application in business innovation self assessment

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 664-673

  Xu, Dong Ling ^a   McCarthy, ^a   Yang, Jian Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Evidential reasoning approach; Intelligent decision system; Knowledge management; Multiple attribute decision making; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACH; INTELLIGENT DECISION SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; SELF ASSESSMENT;

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749583355     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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