Cumulative dominance and heuristic performance in binary multiattribute choice

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1289-1304

  Baucells, Manei ^a   Carrasco, Juan A ^b   Hogarth, Robin M ^c  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTS; BERNOULLI MODELS; BINARY ATTRIBUTES; DECISION ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI ATTRIBUTES; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKINGS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; UPPER BOUNDS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 49649091378     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0485     Document Type: Article

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