A comparison of representations for discrete multi-criteria decision problems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 976-985

  Gettinger, Johannes ^a   Kiesling, Elmar ^b   Stummer, Christian ^c   Vetschera, Rudolf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heatmaps; Multi criteria decision analysis; Parallel coordinates; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION PROCESS; HEATMAPS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PARALLEL COORDINATES; PREFERRED SOLUTIONS; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; PROBLEM REPRESENTATION; RE-EVALUATION; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH PROCESS; SOLUTION QUALITY; SPECIFIC TASKS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; USER CHARACTERISTICS; USER EVALUATIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84871711887     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.10.023     Document Type: Article

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