Numerical and verbal decision analysis: Comparison on practical cases

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 263-273

  Larichev, Oleg I ^a   Brown, Rex V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice of pipeline route; Multi attribute decision theory; Qualitative measurement; Verbal decision analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029332625     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1360(200011)9:6<263::AID-MCDA280>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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