PROMETHEE methods

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 233, Issue , 2016, Pages 187-219

  Brans, Jean Pierre ^a   De Smet, Yves ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

D sight; MCDA; Outranking methods; PROMETHEE GAIA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959354888     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3094-4_6     Document Type: Article

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