Enhancing robustness in multi-criteria decision-making: A scenario-based approach

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCOS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 484-489

  Comes, Tina ^a   Hiete, Michael ^a   Wijngaards, Niek ^b   Schultmann, Frank ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed decision support; Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Robustness; Scenarios; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISASTERS; INFORMATION FILTERING; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED DECISION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; SCENARIOS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79952094876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INCOS.2010.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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