Multidimensional Theoretic Consensus Reachability: The Impact of Distance Selection and Issue Saliences

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-44

  Plastria, Frank ^a   Blockmans, Tom ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consensus; Convex optimisation; Issue salience; Location; Realizability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892981293     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-014-9378-6     Document Type: Article

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