An empirical test of the evidential reasoning approach's synthesis axioms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 11048-11054

  Durbach, Ian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Belief structure; Evidential reasoning; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PERFORMANCE; ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; BELIEF STRUCTURES; EMPIRICAL TEST; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACHES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84861185008     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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