Rule-Based Approach to Multicriteria Ranking

Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-160

  Szela̧g, Marcin ^a   Greco, Salvatore ^b   Słowiński, Roman ^a,c  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b University of Catania and CESifo Research Network   (Italy)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision maker (DM); Decision rules; Multicriteria ranking problem; Pairwise comparison table (PCT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886685161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118522516.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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