Modelling uncertainty in stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 13-23

  Durbach, Ian N ^a,b   Calder, Jon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Decision support systems; Multicriteria; Risk; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84964990251     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.10.015     Document Type: Article

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