An acyclic outranking model to support group decision making within organizations

Omega

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 782-790

  Tavares, L Valadares ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b OPET Portuguese Technology Foresight Observatory   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acyclicity; Consensus relation; Group decision making; Weak transitivity

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

ACYCLICITY; CONDITION; CONSENSUS RELATION; CYCLICITY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC CHOICE THEORIES; SHORT LISTS; SUPPORT GROUPS; TRIANGLE-FREE GRAPHS; WEAK TRANSITIVITY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 84858750467     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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