A survey on stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis methods

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Tervonen, Tommi ^a,b   Figueira, José Rui ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA); Simulation; Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925882977     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.407     Document Type: Article

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