An Al-based decision support system for designing Knowledge-Based Development strategies

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 201-233

  Ergazakis, Emmanouil ^a   Ergazakis, Kostas ^a   Metaxiotis, Kostas ^a   Bellos, E ^a   Leopoulos, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

decision support; ESs; Expert Systems; KC; Knowledge Cities; multi criteria approach; strategy formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549107662     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2008.018174     Document Type: Article

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