A semi-automated approach for structuring multi criteria decision problems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 487-496

  Maier, Konradin ^a   Stix, Volker ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Concept mapping; Hierarchical decomposition; Multiple criteria analysis; Problem structuring

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC ASPECTS; CARD-SORTING; CLUSTER ALGORITHMS; CONCEPT MAPPING; DECISION PROBLEMS; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SEMI-AUTOMATED; TEST DATA;

ALGORITHMS;

SORTING;

EID: 84870241496     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.10.018     Document Type: Article

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