A consistency and consensus based decision support model for group decision making with multiplicative preference relations

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 757-767

  Wu, Zhibin ^a   Xu, Jiuping ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Consistency; Decision support model; Group decision making; Multiplicative preference relation

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSISTENCY; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; PREFERENCE RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84856012195     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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