Improving the generation of decision objectives

Decision Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-255

  Bond, Samuel D ^a   Carlson, Kurt A ^b   Keeney, Ralph L ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Experimental; Identification of objectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651325354     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1100.0172     Document Type: Article

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