Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 142, Issue , 2010, Pages 285-315

  Lahdelma, Risto ^a,b   Salminen, Pekka ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision support; MCDA; SMAA; Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975688040     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5904-1_10     Document Type: Chapter

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