Multi-criteria decision support and evaluation of strategies for nuclear remediation management

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 238-251

  Geldermann, Jutta ^a   Bertsch, Valentin ^a   Treitz, Martin ^a   French, Simon ^b   Papamichail, Konstantinia N ^b   Hämäläinen, Raimo P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Emergency and remediation management; Multi criteria evaluation; Natural language generation; Stakeholder involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DECISION EVALUATIONS; DECISION SUPPORTS; EMERGENCY AND REMEDIATION MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY SITUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; MULTI-CRITERION EVALUATION; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 44849121671     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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