Resolvability for imprecise multiattribute alternative selection

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-169

  White III, Chelsea C ^a   Holloway, Hillary A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Analytics Operations Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision aiding; Imprecisely specified multi attribute utility theory (ISMAUT); Question selection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS; DECISION AIDING; DECISION MAKERS; FINITE NUMBERS; IMPRECISELY SPECIFIED MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY (ISMAUT); MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; PARAMETER VALUES; QUESTION SELECTION; QUESTION SELECTIONS; RESPONSE PROCESSES;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 54949151133     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.909547     Document Type: Article

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