Evaluating simulation-derived scenarios for effective decision support

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-77

  Parker, Andrew M ^a   Srinivasan, Sinduja V ^a   Lempert, Robert J ^a   Berry, Sandra H ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Decision support; Robust decision making; Scenario; Scenario discovery

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL; DECISION SUPPORTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; QUANTITATIVE DECISION; ROBUST DECISIONS; SCENARIO; SCENARIO DISCOVERY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920189724     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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