A CONSENSUS MODEL FOR GROUP DECISION-MAKING PROBLEMS WITH INTERVAL FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS
International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingPublished 1 July 2012
Juan Miguel Tapia García, M.J. del Moral, María A. Martínez, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
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This paper presents a consensus model for group decision-making problems with interval fuzzy preference relations based on two consensus criteria, a consensus measure and a proximity measure, and also on the concept of coincidence among preferences.
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Interval fuzzy preference relations can be useful to express decision makers' preferences in group decision-making problems. Usually, we apply a selection process and a consensus process to solve a group decision situation. In this paper, we present a consensus model for group decision-making problems with interval fuzzy preference relations. This model is based on two consensus criteria, a consensus measure and a proximity measure, and also on the concept of coincidence among preferences. We compute both consensus criteria in the three representation levels of a preference relation and design an automatic feedback mechanism to guide experts in the consensus reaching process. We show an application example in social work.
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