An Attitudinal Trust Recommendation Mechanism to Balance Consensus and Harmony in Group Decision Making
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsPublished 25 January 2019
Jian Wu, Xue Li, Francisco Chiclana, Ronald R. Yager
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A trust-based framework for building a recommendation mechanism for consensus in group decision making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information and a sensitivity analysis with attitudinal parameter is proposed to verify the rationality of the proposed attitudinal trust recommendation mechanism.
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