A Multi-Criteria Group Decision Framework for Partner Grouping When Sharing Facilities

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 773-799

  Ishizaka, Alessio ^a   Nemery, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Smart Picker   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Group decisions and negotiations; Location selection; Multiple criteria analysis; Partner grouping; PROMETHEE; PROMETHEE GDSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877878399     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9292-8     Document Type: Article

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