Weight approximations in multi-attribute decision models

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 291-303

  Roberts, Ron ^a   Goodwin, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi criteria decision making; Rank order centroid weights; Weight elicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 9444229693     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.320     Document Type: Article

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