Multicriteria decision support for global e-government evaluation

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-63

  Siskos, Eleftherios ^a   Askounis, Dimitris ^a   Psarras, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support; E government evaluation; Multicriteria decision analysis; Ordinal regression

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION USE;

DECISION SUPPORTS; DIGITAL SERVICES; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT EVALUATIONS; GOVERNMENT IS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; ORDINAL REGRESSION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84897808140     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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