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OWA Operators in Group Decision Making and Consensus Reaching Under Fuzzy Preferences and Fuzzy Majority

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The Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators

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We discuss the use of Yager’s (1988) ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators with importance qualification (Yager, 1993, 1996) for dealing with a fuzzy majority, meant as a linguistic quantifier (most, almost all, … ), in group decision making and consensus formation under fuzzy preferences. We show how new solution concepts in group decision making, and new “soft” degrees of consensus can be defined.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences ul., Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  2. Department of Informatics and Managerial Sciences, University of Trento, Via Inama 5, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Mario Fedrizzi

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Turku, 20500, Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

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Kacprzyk, J., Fedrizzi, M., Nurmi, H. (1997). OWA Operators in Group Decision Making and Consensus Reaching Under Fuzzy Preferences and Fuzzy Majority. In: Yager, R.R., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) The Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6123-1_16

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