Holistic investment assessment: Optimization, risk appraisal and decision making

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 393-403

  Tziralis, Georgios ^a   Kirytopoulos, Konstantinos ^b   Rentizelas, Athanasios ^a   Tatsiopoulos, Ilias ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision making; Genetic algorithms; Investment assessment; Monte Carlo simulation; Optimization; Risk appraisal

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249152565     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1458     Document Type: Article

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