On measures of cohesiveness under dichotomous opinions: Some characterizations of approval consensus measures

Information Sciences

Volumn 240, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-55

  Alcantud, J C R ^a   De Andres Calle R ^a   Cascon J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2012 USA presidential election; Consensus measure; Dichotomous opinion; Tanimoto similarity index

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION; CONSENSUS MEASURE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DICHOTOMOUS OPINION; GENERIC CLASS; NOVEL CONCEPT; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SIMILARITY INDICES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84877698400     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.03.061     Document Type: Article

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