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Refocusing Attention on Unobserved Attributes to Reach Consensus in Decision Making Problems Involving a Heterogeneous Group of Experts

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Advances in Fuzzy Logic and Technology 2017 (EUSFLAT 2017, IWIFSGN 2017)

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A novel consensus reaching process over alternatives having a flexible collection of attributes is proposed. In this process, a moderator makes available to the participants a collection of attributes that might be detected by some experts but unobserved by others. Using this collection, the moderator can require each expert to refocus his/her attention on previously unobserved attributes and, thus, review his/her evaluations to increase the level of consensus. An example that illustrates the steps of this process is presented.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Marcelo Loor & Guy De Tré

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ESPOL Polytechnic University, Campus Gustavo Galindo V., Km. 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Marcelo Loor & Ana Tapia-Rosero

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Eulalia Szmidt

  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Slawomir Zadrożny

  4. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    K. T. Atanassov

  5. WIT - Warsaw School of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Krawczak

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Loor, M., Tapia-Rosero, A., De Tré, G. (2018). Refocusing Attention on Unobserved Attributes to Reach Consensus in Decision Making Problems Involving a Heterogeneous Group of Experts. In: Kacprzyk, J., Szmidt, E., Zadrożny, S., Atanassov, K., Krawczak, M. (eds) Advances in Fuzzy Logic and Technology 2017. EUSFLAT IWIFSGN 2017 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66824-6_36

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