An Approach to Multi-Criteria Decision Problems Under Severe Uncertainty

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 29-48

  Comes, Tina ^a   Hiete, Michael ^a   Schultmann, Frank ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed information processing; Multi criteria decision analysis; Robustness; Scenario based decision support; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886243377     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.1487     Document Type: Article

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