Improving decision-making performance through argumentation: An argument-based decision support system to compute with evidence

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-89

  Introne, Joshua ^a,b   Iandoli, Luca ^c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported argumentation; Dempster Shafer belief aggregation; Evidence based reasoning; Housing market prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HOUSING; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

COMPUTER-SUPPORTED ARGUMENTATION; DECISION PERFORMANCE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; EVIDENCE-BASED; HOUSING MARKETS; HUMAN DECISION-MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84906784756     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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