Creating more and better alternatives for decisions using objectives

Operations Research

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1144-1158

  Siebert, Johannes ^a   Keeney, Ralph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creating alternatives; Decision analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DECISION THEORY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

CREATING ALTERNATIVES; CREATION PROCESS; DECISION MAKERS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84947930023     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2015.1411     Document Type: Article

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