An empirical study on using decision support systems to solve very large choice decision problems

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 375-389

  Wang, H ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

choice problem; decision process; DSS and SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868636020     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2004.004640     Document Type: Article

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