An analysis of DEMATEL approaches for criteria interaction handling within ANP

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 346-366

  Gölcük, Ilker ^a   Baykasoʇlu, Adil ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ANP; Criteria interaction; Decision analysis; DEMATEL; Multiple attribute decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESSES (ANP); ANP; CRITERIA INTERACTION; DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORIES; DEMATEL; INTELLIGENT DECISION MAKING; INTERACTION PHENOMENA; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84947228802     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.041     Document Type: Article

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