Single-preference consensus measures based on models of ecological evenness

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8825, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-59

  Beliakov, Gleb ^a   James, Simon ^a   Smith, Laura ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus measures; Decision making; Distances; Evenness measures; Preferences; Specifity

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

CONSENSUS MEASURES; DISTANCES; EVENNESS MEASURES; PREFERENCES; SPECIFITY;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84911134569     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12054-6_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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