The dynamics of consensus in group decision making: Investigating the pairwise interactions between fuzzy preferences

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 257, Issue , 2010, Pages 159-182

  Fedrizzi, Mario ^a   Fedrizzi, Michele ^a   Pereira, R A Marques ^a   Brunelli, Matteo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 77956379274     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15976-3_10     Document Type: Article

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