Thinking inside the box: A participatory, computer-assisted approach to scenario discovery

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-49

  Bryant, Benjamin P ^a   Lempert, Robert J ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Robust decision making; Scenario Discovery; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARDS; ROBUST DECISIONS; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO DISCOVERY; SCENARIO PLANNING; UNCERTAIN MODELING;

DATA MINING;

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 72149099073     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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