A bipolar consensus approach for group decision making problems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1759-1772

  Bouzarour Amokrane, Yasmina ^a   Tchangani, Ayeley ^a,b   Peres, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Universite Paul Sabatier Campus de Tarbes   (France)

Author keywords

Bipolarity; Concordance; Consensus process; Discordance; Group decision making (GDM); Influence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY;

BIPOLARITY; CONCORDANCE; DISCORDANCE; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INFLUENCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84908388813     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.09.061     Document Type: Article

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