Interactive computer support in decision conferencing: Two cases on off-site nuclear emergency management

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2247-2260

  Mustajoki, Jyri ^a   Hämäläinen, Raimo P ^a   Sinkko, Kari ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision conferencing; Multicriteria decision analysis; Multicriteria decision support systems; Nuclear emergency management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DECISION CONFERENCING; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845706976     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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