Interactive outranking approaches for multicriteria decision-making problems with imprecise information

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1253-1268

  Ozerol G ^a   Karasakal, E ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Imprecise information; Interactive approach; Multiple criteria decision aid; Outranking relation; PROMETHEE

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

IMPRECISE INFORMATION; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION AID; OUTRANKING RELATION; PROMETHEE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 49749138964     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602458     Document Type: Article

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