Multi-attribute sequential search

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-158

  Bearden, J Neil ^a   Connolly, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal stopping; Satisficing; Sequential search

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247207977     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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