Soft Computing Applications for Group Decision-Making and Consensus Modeling

ISBN-13: 9783319602066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 488 str.

Mikael Collan; Janusz Kacprzyk

Opis

It consists of a collection of authoritative contributions reporting on the decision-making process from different perspectives: from psychology to social and political sciences, from decision sciences to data mining, and from computational sciences in general, to artificial and computational intelligence and systems.

Spis treści

Optimal Group Decision Making Can Help Decrease Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination.- An Overview and Re-Interpretation of Paradoxes of Responsiveness.- Veto in Yes-no and Yes-no-abstain Voting Systems.- Power Indices for Finance.- The binomial decomposition of the single parameter family of GB welfare functions.- The logic of information and processes in the system-of-systems applications.- Decision-making Process using Hyperstructures and Fuzzy Structures in the Social Sciences.- Social Preferences through Riesz Spaces: A First Approach.- Coherent conditional plausibility: a tool for handling fuzziness and uncertainty under partial information.- Intuitionistic fuzzy interpretations of some formulas for estimation of preference degree.- Fuzzified Likert Scales in Group Multiple-criteria Evaluation.- Maximal Entropy and Minimal Variability OWA Operator Weights: A Short Survey of Recent Developments.

Blurb

This book offers a concise introduction and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field of decision-making and consensus modeling, with a special emphasis on fuzzy methods. It consists of a collection of authoritative contributions reporting on the decision-making process from different perspectives: from psychology to social and political sciences, from decision sciences to data mining, and from computational sciences in general, to artificial and computational intelligence and systems. Written as a homage to Mario Fedrizzi for his scholarly achievements, creative ideas and long lasting services to different scientific communities, it introduces key theoretical concepts, describes new models and methods, and discusses a range of promising real-world applications in the field of decision-making science. It is a timely reference guide and a source of inspiration for advanced students and researchers