Abstract
In recent years, hesitant multiplicative preference relation (HMPR) has been a powerful means to represent the evaluation information of decision makers during the pairwise comparison concerning alternatives. As the important parts of group decision making (GDM) issues with HMPRs, the consistency improving and consensus reaching processes have been researched by many scholars; however, the existing approaches present several limitations, including defining the consistency index depend on the other HMPR instead of the original HMPR, improving the consistency and consensus levels of HMPRs independently, and that the high computational complexity of the existing iterative algorithms. To overcome these drawbacks, this paper proposes a mathematical programming model to improve the consistency and consensus levels of HMPRs, simultaneously. First, a consistency index according to multiplicative consistency is put forward to compute the consistency degree of normalized HMPR (NHMPR) after the normalization procedure. Second, a programming model by minimizing the difference between the original NHMPR and the revised NHMPR is developed to obtain the acceptably consistent NHMPR; then, a consistency-based method is constructed to solve the decision making problems with an HMPR. Third, considering the GDM issues, a consistency- and consensus-based programming model is established to obtain the acceptably consistent and consensus NHMPRs, in which the original evaluation information can remain as much as possible. Fourth, the normalized hesitant multiplicative weighted geometric operator is introduced to fuse the revised NHMPRs and an algorithm for GDM is proposed with novel consistency improving and consensus reaching processes. Finally, two numerical examples are applied to show the practicality and advantages of the proposed approaches.
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Wang, R., Shuai, B., Chen, ZS. et al. Revisiting the Role of Hesitant Multiplicative Preference Relations in Group Decision Making With Novel Consistency Improving and Consensus Reaching Processes. Int J Comput Intell Syst 12, 1029–1046 (2019). https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.d.190823.001
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