A Bayesian Belief Network for IT implementation decision support

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1573-1588

  Lauría, Eitel J M ^a   Duchessi, Peter J ^b  

^a MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs); Decision Support Systems (DSSs); Information Technology (IT) implementation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS (BBN); COMPUTER BASED DECISION MAKING; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPHICAL MODELS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750475608     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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