Decision support for preference elicitation in multi-attribute electronic procurement auctions through an agent-based intermediary

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-138

  Yang, Na ^a   Liao, Xiuwu ^a   Huang, Wayne Wei ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregation approach; Electronic procurement; Multi criteria decision making; Preference elicitation

Indexed keywords

DISAGGREGATION; ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE AUCTION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PREFERENCE ELICITATION; PREFERENCE STATEMENTS; REPRESENTATIVE PREFERENCE MODELS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SALES; SEMANTICS;

PURCHASING;

EID: 84892372990     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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