Challenges and open questions in soft consensus models

Proceedings of the 2013 Joint IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Meeting, IFSA/NAFIPS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 944-949

  Cabrerizo, F J ^a   Chiclana, F ^b   Urena M R ^c   Herrera Viedma, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEGREE; CONSENSUS MODELS; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; REAL-WORLD;

EID: 84886449078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IFSA-NAFIPS.2013.6608527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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