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Multi-criteria Group Decision Making and Group Agreement Quotient Analysis Based on the Delphi Method

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In order to overcome the limitations of individual decision makers’ knowledge, a multi-criteria decision-making method based on Delphi method is proposed. This method uses the anonymity mechanism and feedback mechanism of the Delphi method. In the first round of decision-making process, the host collects the opinions given by the experts on the scheme set. Then through the calculation, obtain the consensus of the group. When the consensus of the group does not reach a certain threshold, the system feeds back the consensus degree between the experts based on the criteria and the detailed information of each scheme evaluation, so that the experts can make the next round of decision until the consensus is reached. This method makes each expert revise their opinion based on anonymous feedback information and the process of consensus-building is accelerated, avoiding endless discussion.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by National Key Research and Development Scheme of China under grant number 2017YFC1405403, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 61075059, and Green Industry Technology Leading Project (product development category) of Hubei University of Technology under grant number CPYF2017008.

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  1. Strategic Teaching and Research Section, Naval Command College, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Song Lin

  2. School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China

    Li Shen & Caiquan Xiong

  3. Beijing North-Star Digital Remote Sensing Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Xuan Li

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. School of Software, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia

    Farookh Khadeer Hussain

  3. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Ikeda

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Lin, S., Shen, L., Xiong, C., Li, X. (2020). Multi-criteria Group Decision Making and Group Agreement Quotient Analysis Based on the Delphi Method. In: Barolli, L., Hussain, F., Ikeda, M. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22354-0_22

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