Opportunity cost and OCBA selection procedures in ordinal optimization for a fixed number of alternative systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 951-961

  He, Donghai ^a   Chick, Stephen E ^b   Chen, Chun Hung ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; OPPORTUNITY COST; OPTIMAL COMPUTING BUDGET ALLOCATION (OCBA);

ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS;

EID: 34548237750     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2007.900656     Document Type: Article

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