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A Consensus Reaching Support System for Multi-criteria Decision Making Problems

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We present an extension of a consensus reaching support system presented in our previous works to additionally accommodate a multi-criteria evaluation of options and importance weights of all criteria given by each agent (individual). The multi-criteria setting implies a need for some modification of concepts, tools and techniques proposed in our previous works with a single criterion. To improve the efficiency of the process we use some additional suggestions/hints provided for the moderator in the form of linguistic summaries, modified to the multi-criteria setting. We present an application for a real world problem which involves reaching of a sufficient agreement in the small group of human agents. The results obtained are intuitively appealing, and promising in terms of time and costs of opinion changes to reach a sufficient consensus.

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This work is partially supported by the Foundation for Polish Science under the “International Ph.D. Projects in Intelligent Computing” financed from the Europe-an Union within the Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007–2013 and European Regional Development Fund (D. Gołuńska), and partially by the National Science Centre under Grant No. UMO 2012/05/B/ST6/03068 (J. Kacprzyk).

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    Przemysław Grzegorzewski

  3. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warszawa, Poland

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Gołuńska, D., Kacprzyk, J. (2016). A Consensus Reaching Support System for Multi-criteria Decision Making Problems. In: Trė, G., Grzegorzewski, P., Kacprzyk, J., Owsiński, J., Penczek, W., Zadrożny, S. (eds) Challenging Problems and Solutions in Intelligent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30165-5_11

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