Robustness and information levels in case-based multiple criteria sorting

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 841-852

  Vetschera, Rudolf ^a   Chen, Ye ^b   Hipel, Keith W ^c   Marc Kilgour, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case based preference elicitation; Experimental test; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Multiple criteria sorting; Robust analysis

Indexed keywords

CASE-BASED PREFERENCE ELICITATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA SORTING; ROBUST ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 70350574591     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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