A statistical comparative study of different similarity measures of consensus in group decision making

Information Sciences

Volumn 221, Issue , 2013, Pages 110-123

  Chiclana, F ^a   Tapia Garcia J M ^b   Del Moral, M J ^b   Herrera Viedma, E ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consensus; Decision support rules; Fuzzy preferences; Group decision making; Similarity; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CONSENSUS; DECISION SUPPORTS; FUZZY PREFERENCES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; SIMILARITY; WILCOXON TEST;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84880358467     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.09.014     Document Type: Article

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