Consensus-based intelligent group decision-making model for the selection of advanced technology

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1776-1799

  Choudhury, A K ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^b   Tiwari, M K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOUNDRY AND FORGE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Consensus measure; Multi agent structure; Negotiation; Proximity measure; Soft consensus

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONSENSUS MEASURES; GROUP DECISION MAKING (GDM); MULTI-AGENT STRUCTURES; PROXIMITY MEASURES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33750474874     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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