TOPSIS Based Approach to Scoring Negotiating Offers in Negotiation Support Systems

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1021-1050

  Wachowicz, Tomasz ^a   Błaszczyk, Paweł ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN KATOWICE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Continuous negotiation space; Distance measures; Electronic negotiation; Goal programming; Negotiation support; Preference analysis; Scoring system for negotiating offers; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884700398     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9299-1     Document Type: Article

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