An evolutionary approach to construction of outranking models for multicriteria classification: The case of the ELECTRE TRI method

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 496-505

  Doumpos, M ^a   Marinakis, Y ^a   Marinaki, M ^a   Zopounidis, C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision support systems; Evolutionary computation; Multi criteria analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DECISION MAKERS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHMS; ELECTRE; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA CLASSIFICATIONS; OUTRANKING METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67349134217     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.035     Document Type: Article

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