On Group Decision Making, Consensus Reaching, Voting, and Voting Paradoxes under Fuzzy Preferences and a Fuzzy Majority: A Survey and a Granulation Perspective

Handbook of Granular Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 907-929

  Kacprzyk, Janusz ^a   Zadrony, Sawomir ^a,b   Fedrizzi, Mario ^c   Nurmi, Hannu ^d  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b WARSAW SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Decision making crucial and omnipresent activities; Fuzzy preferences and fuzzy majority consensus; Group decision making; Group decision making and fuzzy preferences; Group decision making under fuzzy preferences; Individual and social fuzzy preference relations; Linguistic quantifiers; Social fuzzy preference relation; Studying fuzzy tournaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889345125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470724163.ch43     Document Type: Chapter

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