Preference-based decision support in software engineering

Value-Based Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 67-89

  Vetschera, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

additive weighting; aspiration levels; Decision analysis; multiple criteria; outranking methods; sensitivity analysis; subjective preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846899198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29263-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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