Fuzzy rationality and parameter elicitation in decision analysisFootnote

^1. Based on ‘Eliciting Parameters in Decision Analysis and Fuzzy Rationality’, by N.D. Nikolova, D. Dimitrakiev and K. Tenekedjiev, which appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems IS’08, pp. 15-18–15-23.

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