Integrating soft computing in group decision support systems: a taste of the challenges and opportunities

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-97-04, Issue , 1997, Pages 58-61

  Van De Walle, Bartel ^a,b   Turoff, Murray ^a   Bieber, Michael ^a   Rana, Ajaz ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFT COMPUTING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION-MAKING GROUPS; PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS; SOFT-COMPUTING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85010731654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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