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Construction of Fuzzy Utility Functions in Group Decision Making

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This paper discusses a method for group decision making through fuzzy decision analysis. Decision problems in the real-world include complex and ambiguous properties one of whose major sources comes from group decision situations. Some people are pursuing fuzzy set-aggregation approaches using fuzzy connectives and fuzzy integrals for treating this situations, where no concern is with identifying the individual preference functions. This paper intends to present a method for deriving the fuzzy utility function and its multiobjective extensions in the group decision environments. Representation theorems of the fuzzy utility function and the fuzzy multiattribute utility function are discussed in the possibilistic decision analysis.

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration and Informatics, The Setsunan University, 17-8 Ikeda-Nakamachi, Neyagawa, Osaka, 572, Japan

    Fumiko Seo

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  2. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

  3. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Mario Fedrizzi

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Seo, F. (1997). Construction of Fuzzy Utility Functions in Group Decision Making. In: Kacprzyk, J., Nurmi, H., Fedrizzi, M. (eds) Consensus Under Fuzziness. International Series in Intelligent Technologies, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6333-4_12

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