Conjoint measurement tools for MCDM: A brief introduction

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 78, Issue , 2005, Pages 73-130

  Bouyssou, Denis ^a   Pirlot, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Additive value function; Conjoint measurement; Preference modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955096434     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-23081-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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