ANP SOLVER: An alternative tool for implementing the ANP method

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-56

  Kirytopoulos, Konstantinos A ^a   Voulgaridou, Dimitra ^a   Rokou, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; ANP; ANP SOLVER; Decision support systems; DSSs; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751625443     PISSN: 17558077     EISSN: 17558085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2011.038090     Document Type: Article

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