Discriminating thresholds as a tool to cope with imperfect knowledge in multiple criteria decision aiding: Theoretical results and practical issues

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-20

  Roy, B ^a   Figueira, J R ^b   Almeida Dias, J ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Decision aiding process; Imperfect knowledge; Multi criteria analysis decision support; Preference modeling; Pseudo criteria

Indexed keywords

DECISION AIDING; DECISION AIDING PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORTS; IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE; MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSE/DECISION SUPPORT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION AIDING; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PREFERENCE MODELS; PSEUDO-CRITERIA;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887140675     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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