On the Similarities of Some Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methods

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 219-230

  Geldermann, Jutta ^a   Schöbel, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

MCDA; Outranking; Preference functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886671022     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.468     Document Type: Article

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