The contributions of multi-criteria decision making to the development of decision support systems subspecialties: An empirical investigation

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 239-255

  Eom, Sean B ^a   Min, Hokey ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Cocitation analysis; Decision support systems; Factor analysis; Intellectual structure; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976486940     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1360(199909)8:5<239::AID-MCDA249>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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