An Integrated Group Decision-Making Method Dealing with Fuzzy Preferences for Alternatives and Individual Judgments for Selection Criteria
Group Decision and NegotiationPublished 1 November 2003
Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lü
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An integrated fuzzy group decision-making method that allows group members to express fuzzy preferences for alternatives and individual judgments for solution selection criteria and aggregates these elements into a compromise group decision which is the most acceptable for the group as a whole is proposed.
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Abstract Organizations often require decisions to be made by a group, and decision makers often have fuzzy preferences for alternatives and individual judgments when attempting to reach an optimal solution. In order to deal with the fuzziness of preference of decision makers, this paper proposes an integrated fuzzy group decision-making method. This method allows group members to express fuzzy preferences for alternatives and individual judgments for solution selection criteria. It also allowed for the weighting of group members. The method then aggregates these elements into a compromise group decision which is the most acceptable for the group as a whole. This method has been implemented and tested. An example is presented to illustrate the method.
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