A distance-based consensus model with flexible choice of rank-position weights

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 441-456

  Contreras, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compromise solution; Incomplete information; Preference aggregation; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955558391     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-008-9127-9     Document Type: Article

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