Dealing with uncertainty in Decision Support Systems: Recent trends (2000-2011)

Intelligent Decision Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 245-264

  Dias, Luis C ^a,b   Antunes, Carlos Henggeler ^a,c   Insua, David Rios ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d Royal Academy of Sciences   (Spain)

Author keywords

Applications; Decision Support Systems; Robustness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); DECISION SUPPORTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REAL DECISION SUPPORT; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY MODELLING;

APPLICATIONS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879928517     PISSN: 18724981     EISSN: 18758843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDT-2012-0141     Document Type: Article

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