Multiperson decision making with different preference representation structures: A direct consensus framework and its properties

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-57

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Zhang, Hengjie ^a  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Internal consistency; Multiperson decision making; Preference representation structures; Social choice theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894574962     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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