How to support consensus reaching using action rules: A novel approach

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-470

  Kacprzyk, Janusz ^a   Zadrony, Sawomir ^a   Ra, Zbigniew W ^b,c  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

action rules; Consensus reaching; fuzzy majority; fuzzy preference; group decision making; intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic preference; soft consensus measure

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS;

ACTION RULES; CONSENSUS REACHING; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; FUZZY MAJORITY; FUZZY PREFERENCES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCES; SOFT CONSENSUS MEASURE;

MODERATORS;

EID: 77954548754     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488510006647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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