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Strategies to Manage Ignorance Situations in Multiperson Decision Making Problems

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Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2006)

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Multiperson decision making problems involve using the preferences of some experts about a set of alternatives in order to find the best of those alternatives. However, sometimes experts cannot give all the information that they are required. Particularly, when dealing with fuzzy preference relations they can avoid giving some of the preference values of the relation. In the literature these incomplete information situations have been faced giving procedures which are able to compute missing information from the preference relations. However, these approaches usually need at least a piece of information about every alternative in the problem. In this paper, several strategies to manage total ignorance situations, that is, situations where an expert does not provide any information on at least one alternative are presented, and their advantages and disadvantages analised.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    S. Alonso, E. Herrera-Viedma, F. Herrera & C. Porcel

  2. Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    F. Chiclana

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  1. IIIA, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Campus UAB s/n, Catalonia, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Vicenç Torra

  2. Toho Gakuen, 3-1-10 Naka, 186-0004, Tokyo, Kunitachi, Japan

    Yasuo Narukawa

  3. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Knowledge Acquisition Research Group,, University Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans, 26., 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Aïda Valls

  4. Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Av. Països Catalans 26, E-43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep Domingo-Ferrer

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Alonso, S., Herrera-Viedma, E., Chiclana, F., Herrera, F., Porcel, C. (2006). Strategies to Manage Ignorance Situations in Multiperson Decision Making Problems. In: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., Valls, A., Domingo-Ferrer, J. (eds) Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. MDAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11681960_6

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