A decision support system for fisheries management using operations research and systems science approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2971-2978

  Azadivar, Farhad ^b   Truong, Tu ^a   Jiao, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Multispecies; Optimization; Simulation; Spatial management

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; FISH; FISHERIES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION;

CATCH PER UNIT EFFORTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); FISHERIES MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES; MULTI-SPECIES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 56349099611     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.080     Document Type: Article

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