A review of soft consensus models in a fuzzy environment

Information Fusion

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-13

  Herrera Viedma, Enrique ^a   Cabrerizo, Francisco Javier ^b   Kacprzyk, Janusz ^c   Pedrycz, Witold ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consensus; Fuzzy logic; Group decision making; Soft consensus measures

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEGREE; CONSENSUS MODELS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; SOFT CONSENSUS MEASURES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84888304605     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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