Diversity of ability and cognitive style for group decision processes

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 542-558

  West, David ^a   Dellana, Scott ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ability diversity; Bankruptcy detection; Cognitive diversity; Multi agent group decisions

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ABILITY DIVERSITY; BANKRUPTCY DETECTION; COGNITIVE DIVERSITY; COGNITIVE STYLES; DATA SETS; DECISION ENVIRONMENTS; DECISION ERRORS; ERROR DIVERSITIES; ERROR REDUCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGIES; FINANCIAL DOMAINS; GENERALIZATION ERRORS; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT GROUP DECISIONS;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 57649184377     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.10.028     Document Type: Article

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