An interactive sorting method for additive utility functions

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2565-2572

  Köksalan, Murat ^a   Bilgin Özpeynirci, Selin ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Additive utility function; Multiple criteria sorting

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; SORTING;

ADDITIVE UTILITY FUNCTION; DECISION MAKERS; INTERACTIVE APPROACHES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA SORTING; PREFERENCE INFORMATIONS; SOLUTION PROCESS; SORTING METHODS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 60349095321     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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