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In the so called “Group Problem”[4] (we would like to term it “Group-Consulting Type Cooperation”), ESs of the same cooperating group may have different views towards the same problem, and the differences may sometimes be very great. For the circumstance of those ESs with relatively closer views, we present in this paper three methods of consistency treatment and a method for calculating the maximal deviation of the confidence value about the cooperating group's common view based on the consistency degree of those different views. For the circumstance of those views being not very close to each other and also not very different from each other, we designed two synthesis functions for synthesizing multiple views. These two circumstances are formally defined in this paper. A comparison between these two functions and the combining function in [4] is also demonstrated. In the last section of this paper, we present a discussion about some further research topics of conflict-resolution in the group problem.
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This research was supported by the National “863” Project under contract number 306-1041, by the National 7th Five-Year-Plan Project under contract number 75-68-5-3, and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract number B6874002.
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Liu, D., Zheng, F., Ma, Z. et al. Conflict-resolution in multi-ES cooperation system. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 7, 369–378 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943554
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