A Decision Rule Aggregation Approach to Multiple Criteria-Multiple Participant Sorting

Y. Chen, D. Marc Kilgour, Keith W. Hipel
2011 Group Decision and Negotiation  
A system that aggregates case-based linguistic decision rules using a hybrid of the dominance-based rough set approach (DRSA) and the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence is proposed for multiple criterion-multiple participant sorting. First, DRSA is employed to infer linguistic decision rules that estimate the preferences of a few participants by means of their evaluations of representative case sets. Next, DS theory is applied to aggregate the decision rules triggered by all participants'
more » ... valuations of an alternative, thereby generating an overall decision recommendation for the alternative. The method is demonstrated on a numerical example. Keywords Group decision making · Multiple criteria-multiple participant sorting · Dominance-based rough set approach · Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence · Decision rule aggregation
doi:10.1007/s10726-011-9246-6 fatcat:wqgld2b2drbf5j67c6ove3ny7m