Multidimensional Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria decision support

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 9, Issue PART 1, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Bertsch, Valentin ^a   Geldermann, Jutta ^a   Rentz, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Emergency management; Multi criteria decision making; Multidimensional sensitivity analysis; Preferential uncertainties

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; PREFERENTIAL UNCERTAINTIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79961131143     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20060522-3-fr-2904.00023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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