The Use of Ranking Veto Concept to Mitigate the Compensatory Effects of Additive Aggregation in Group Decisions on a Water Utility Automation Investment

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-204

  de França Dantas Daher, Suzana ^a   de Almeida, Adiel Teixeira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Group decision; Investment in water utilities; MAUT; Ranking veto concept; Utility threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856211502     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-011-9266-2     Document Type: Article

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