Computational intelligence techniques for risk assessment and decision support

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 26, Issue 11 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 1081-1095

  Schwartz, David R ^a,b   Kaufman, Adam B ^a   Schwartz, Ira M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Q linx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational intelligence; Decision support; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 5744229105     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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