Verbal decision analysis

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 78, Issue , 2005, Pages 609-637

  Moshkovich, Helen ^a   Mechitov, Alexander ^a   Olson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Multiple criteria; ORCLASS; Ordinal judgments; Preference elicitation; ZAPROS

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649104457     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-23081-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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