Simple procedures of choice in multicriteria problems without precise information about the alternatives' values

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2239-2247

  Sarabando, Paula ^a   Dias, Luiás C ^a  

^a INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Imprecise incomplete partial information; MAUT MAVT; Multi criteria decision analysis; Ordinal information; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MODELS; CHOICE PROBLEMS; DECISION RULES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; ORDINAL INFORMATION; VALUE THEORY;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 77955269639     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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