Bringing understanding in societal decision making: Explaining and communicating analyses?

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 191-202

  Niculae, Carmen ^a   French, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated explanations; Decision support systems (DSS); E democracy; Information and communication technologies (ICT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548073167     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.356     Document Type: Article

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