Some problems of evaluating multicriteria decision methods

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 527-539

  Ginevicius, Romualdas ^a   Podvezko, Valentinas ^b  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Department of Mathematical Statistics ^*  (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Evaluation criteria; Multicriteria decision making methods; Normalisation of data

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548285281     PISSN: 14624621     EISSN: 17415187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2007.013415     Document Type: Article

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