Multiple criteria approaches to group decision and negotiation

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 142, Issue , 2010, Pages 317-338

  Kilgour, D Marc ^a   Chen, Ye ^b   Hipel, Keith W ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Collective decisions; Group decision; Multilateral; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Multiple party multiple objective decisions; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975684140     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5904-1_11     Document Type: Chapter

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