 Multi-criteria group decision making based on bilateral agreementsMeimei Xia and Jian Chen European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 240, issue 3, 756-764 Abstract: In multi-criteria group decision making, a key issue is aggregating individual preference into group one. In this study, we employ a bilateral agreement to conduct group evaluation of alternatives. The bilateral agreement between a pair of individuals could be on the weight of a criterion, a criterion evaluation function, or willingness to pay. Any one of three types of bilateral agreements can derive the group utility. To express the relationship between the bilateral agreement and individual evaluations, the quasi-arithmetic mean is used, which can ensure the consistency property of the pairwise comparison matrices. The minimum requirements are explored to obtain the group preference, which shows that n−1 pairs of bilateral agreements are necessary. Finally, several examples are provided to illustrate the proposed methods. Keywords: Multiple criteria analysis; Group decision making; Bilateral agreements; Quasi-arithmetic mean; Pairwise comparison matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:240:y:2015:i:3:p:756-764 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.07.035 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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