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2. Group Decision Making and Consensual Processes

Author : Iván Palomares Carrascosa

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the basic concepts and ideas behind Group Decision Making (GDM) problems under uncertainty, highlighting its core underlying processes—aggregation of information and alternative(s) selection—and preference modeling approaches. Consensus building principles and its numerous related approaches to support accepted group decisions are then introduced in detail. Finally, given the frequent co-occurrence of decision scenarios involving both groups of participants and multiple evaluation criteria, the chapter concludes with an overview of classic Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods.

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In Saaty’s multiplicative scale, a value of 1 indicates indifference and the closer the integer value is to 9 the more strongly x l is preferred against x k, see Table 2.1 in Sect. 2.5.
 
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Existing linguistic decision making approaches tend to adopt two opposite notions of granularity: (1) odd granularity equal to cardinality of the term set, g = |S|; or (2) even granularity equal to g = |S|− 1.
 
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Metadata
Title
Group Decision Making and Consensual Processes
Author
Iván Palomares Carrascosa
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Large Group Decision Making

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-01026-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-01027-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01027-0_2

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