Description
This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems. It puts forward new optimization-based decision support approaches to help decision-makers find roadmaps to consensus with minimum adjustments. Simulation experiments and comparison analysis are subsequently conducted to assess the validity of the proposal. After reading this book, readers will possess a number of valuable tools for building consensus with minimum adjustments in the context of group decision-making. Further, the proposed approach can effectively reduce costs in consensus building.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Part I: Introduction.- Group decision making.- Consensus reaching process.- Part II: Consensus models with the minimum adjustments and aggregation operators.- Minimum adjustments consensus models.- Maximum expert consensus models.- Part III: Consensus in the multiple attribute group decision making.- Consensus rule I: minimizing the distance between original and adjusted preferences.- Consensus rule II: minimizing the number of adjusted preference values.- Interactive multiple attribute consensus framework to support consensus reaching.- Part IV: Consensus in the group decision making with preference relations.- Individual consistency issues in preference relations.- Consensus framework with minimum adjustments to integrate the individual consistency.- Part V: Consensus in the linguistic group decision making.- Linguistic consensus model with minimum adjustments.- Minimizing adjusted simple terms in the hesitant linguistic consensus reaching.- Part VI: Simulation experiments and comparison analysis.- Simulation experiments and comparison analysis.- Appendix.
