Dominance-based Rough Set Approach to decision under uncertainty and time preference

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-75

  Greco, Salvatore ^a   Matarazzo, Benedetto ^a   Słowiński, Roman ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Decision under uncertainty; Dominance based Rough Set Approach; Preference learning; Time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949424308     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0566-8     Document Type: Article

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