Building consensus in group decision making with an allocation of information granularity

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 255, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-127

  Cabrerizo, Francisco Javier ^a   Ureña, Raquel ^b   Pedrycz, Witold ^c,d,e   Herrera Viedma, Enrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Consensus; Consistency; Granularity of information; Group decision making; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION GRANULES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

CONSENSUS; CONSISTENCY; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; GRANULARITY OF INFORMATION; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION GRANULARITY; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PREFERENCE MODELING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84907712320     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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