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Group Verbal Decision Analysis

Group Verbal Decision Analysis
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Author(s): Alexey Petrovsky (Institute for Systems Analysis – Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Frederic Adam (University College Cork, Ireland)and Patrick Humphreys (London School of Economics, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch048

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Abstract

Ordering and classification of objects by their properties are among the typical problems in multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA). The difficulties of choice problems increase when the same object may exist in several copies with different attributes’ values, and values of different attributes may be repeated within the object description. For example, such situation arises when several experts estimate alternatives upon multiple criteria. In this case, individual expert assessments may be similar, diverse, or contradictory. Various techniques for classification of alternatives or their ranking have been developed. But most of the methods do not pay a serious consideration to contradictions and inconsistencies in decision makers’ (DM) preferences and a problem description. Group verbal decision analysis (GroupVDA) is a new methodological approach in the MCDA area, which enlarges verbal decision analysis (VDA) approach to a group decision. GroupVDA deals with choice problems where preferences of several decision makers may be discordant, and alternatives are described with manifold repeating quantitative and qualitative attributes. New GroupVDA methods are based on the theory of multisets or sets with repeating elements, and represent multi-attribute objects as points in multiset metric spaces.

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