A trust induced recommendation mechanism for reaching consensus in group decision making
Knowledge-Based SystemsPublished 18 December 2016
Yujia Liu, Changyong Liang, Francisco Chiclana, Jian Wu
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This article addresses the inconsistency problem in group decision making caused by disparate opinions of multiple experts by investigating a trust induced recommendation mechanism to generate personalised advices for the inconsistent experts to reach higher consensus level.
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