Questions guiding the choice of a multicriteria decision aiding method

EURO Journal on Decision Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 69-97

  Roy, Bernard ^a   Słowiński, Roman ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Analyst; Decision maker; Decision process; Multicriteria decision aiding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901064181     PISSN: 21939438     EISSN: 21939446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40070-013-0004-7     Document Type: Article

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