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A Group Decision-Making Method Based on Evidence Theory in Uncertain Dynamic Environment

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Human Centered Computing (HCC 2017)

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A debate model based on evidence theory is proposed to solve the problem of group decision-making under uncertain conditions. First, the framework of the debate system is constructed. The internal structure of the argument is composed of preconditions and conclusions. There is not only an attack and a support relationship between the arguments, but also to support or oppose such attacks and support relationships. Then we introduce the evidence theory to describe the uncertainty of the argument, apply the evidence mapping method to the uncertainty process of the debate process, and realize the numerical calculation of the reliability of the argument. Finally, a simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61472136; 61772196), the Hunan Provincial Focus Social Science Fund (2016ZBB006) and Hunan Provincial Social Science Achievement Review Committee results appraisal identification project (Xiang social assessment 2016JD05).

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  1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Hunan University of Commerce, Changsha, 410205, China

    Weijin Jiang & Yuhui Xu

  2. Electronic Information Engineering Department, Changsha Normal University, Changsha, 410100, China

    Weijin Jiang

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Weijin Jiang

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  2. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Hayes, United Kingdom

    Bo Hu

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Jiang, W., Xu, Y. (2018). A Group Decision-Making Method Based on Evidence Theory in Uncertain Dynamic Environment. In: Zu, Q., Hu, B. (eds) Human Centered Computing. HCC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74521-3_57

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