An ELECTRE-based decision aid tool for stepwise benchmarking: An application over EU Digital Agenda targets

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 230-241

  Petrović, Marijana ^a   Bojković, Nataša ^a   Anić, Ivan ^a   Stamenković, Mladen ^a   Tarle, Snežana Pejčić ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Development path; Digital Agenda; ELECTRE; European Union; Intermediate benchmark; Stepwise benchmarking

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DEVELOPMENT PATH; DIGITAL AGENDA; ELECTRE; EUROPEAN UNION; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; PERFORMANCE TARGETS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84897621902     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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