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A New Method for Group Decision Making Using Group Recommendations Based on Interval Fuzzy Preference Relations and Consistency Matrices

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Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence (IEA/AIE 2014)

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This paper presents a new method for group decision making using group recommendations based on interval fuzzy preference relations and consistency matrices. First, it constructs consistency matrices from interval fuzzy preference relations. Then, it constructs a collective consistency matrix, constructs a weighted collective preference relation, and constructs a group collective preference relation. Then, it constructs a consensus relation for each expert and calculates the group consensus degree for the experts based on the constructed consensus relations. If the group consensus degree is smaller than a predefined threshold value, then it modifies the interval fuzzy preference values in the interval fuzzy preference relations. The above process is performed repeatedly, until the group consensus degree is larger than or equal to the predefined threshold value. Finally, based on the group collective preference relation, it calculates the score of each alternative. The larger the score of the alternative, the better the preference order of the alternative. The proposed method can overcome the drawbacks of the existing methods for group decision making using group recommendations.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C.

    Shyi-Ming Chen & Tsung-En Lin

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Texas State University, TX 78666, San Marcos, USA

    Moonis Ali

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, No. 415, Chien Kung Road, 80778, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shyi-Ming Chen

  4. Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)

    Mong-Fong Horng

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Chen, SM., Lin, TE. (2014). A New Method for Group Decision Making Using Group Recommendations Based on Interval Fuzzy Preference Relations and Consistency Matrices. In: Ali, M., Pan, JS., Chen, SM., Horng, MF. (eds) Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07455-9_33

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