Comparing Two Approaches for Consensus Computation in Group Decision Making Problems

Date
2018-09
Authors
del Moral, Maria Jose
Tapia Garcia, Juan Miguel
Chiclana, Francisco
Herrera-Viedma, Enrique
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Publisher
IOS press
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
In group decision making problems, the soft consensus calculus is an important topic. Soft consensus measures are utilized to show the different agreement degrees between decisors. Using the concept of coincidence we have two main approaches to calculating soft consensus measures: concordance among expert preferences and concordance among individual solutions. In the first, the coincidence is obtained by evaluating the similarity among the expert preferences, while in the second one the concordance is derived from the measurement of the similarity among the solutions proposed by these decisors or experts. In this paper we perform a basic comparative study of consensus calculus based on both coincidence approaches. We use the nonparametric Wilcoxon signed-ranks test to compare these approaches. We obtain significant differences between both approaches for measuring consensus.
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Keywords
Group decision making, fuzzy preference relations, consensus, Wilcoxon test
Citation
Del Moral, M.J., Tapia Garcia, J.M., Chiclana, F., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2018) Comparing Two Approaches for Consensus Computation in Group Decision Making Problems. In: Fujita, H., Herrera-Viedma, E. (Eds.) New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 303, pp.312 - 320.
Research Institute
Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)