A consensus model to detect and manage noncooperative behaviors in large-scale group decision making

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 516-530

  Palomares, Iván ^a   Martínez, Luis ^a   Herrera, Francisco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Consensus; e democracy; fuzzy clustering; group decision making (GDM); preference relation; self organizing maps (SOMs); social networks

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONSENSUS; E-DEMOCRACY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; NON-COOPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; PREFERENCE RELATION; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84901983889     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2013.2262769     Document Type: Article

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