WeightLifter: Visual Weight Space Exploration for Multi-Criteria Decision Making

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 611-620

  Pajer, Stephan ^a   Streit, Marc ^c   Torsney Weir, Thomas ^b   Spechtenhauser, Florian ^a   Möller, Torsten ^b   Piringer, Harald ^a  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

decision making; interactive ranking; multi objective optimization; rank sensitivity; Visual analysis

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SPACE RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION;

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; INTERACTIVE RANKING; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK; RANK SENSITIVITY; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84999099056     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598589     Document Type: Article

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