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Implementations and Real-World Applications of LGDM Research

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Large Group Decision Making

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Due to their rather practical nature, existing works on real-world implementations of Large Group Decision are summarized in this chapter, along with a brief overview of the real-world practical scenarios where many of the surveyed studies have been applied.

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Palomares Carrascosa, I. (2018). Implementations and Real-World Applications of LGDM Research. In: Large Group Decision Making. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01027-0_5

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