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A Fuzzy Hierarchical Multiple Criteria Group Decision Support System – Decider – and Its Applications

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Decider is a Fuzzy Hierarchical Multiple Criteria Group Decision Support System (FHMC-GDSS) designed for dealing with subjective, in particular linguistic, information and objective information simultaneously to support group decision making particularly on evaluation. In this chapter, the fuzzy aggregation decision model, functions and structure of Decider are introduced. The ideas to resolve decision and evaluation problems we have faced in the development and application of Decider are presented. Two real applications of the Decider system are briefly illustrated. Finally, we discuss our further research in this area.

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  1. Centre of QCIS, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), USA

    Jun Ma, Guangquan Zhang & Jie Lu

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  1. Depto. Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Granada, C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Enrique Herrera-Viedma

  2. Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Avenida Valle Esgueva 6, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    José Luis García-Lapresta

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

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  4. Fac. Economia Dipto. Informatica e Studi Aziendali, Università di Trento, Via Inama 5, 38100, Trento, Trento, Italy

    Mario Fedrizzi

  5. Department of Political Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

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

    Sławomir Zadrożny

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Ma, J., Zhang, G., Lu, J. (2011). A Fuzzy Hierarchical Multiple Criteria Group Decision Support System – Decider – and Its Applications. In: Herrera-Viedma, E., García-Lapresta, J.L., Kacprzyk, J., Fedrizzi, M., Nurmi, H., Zadrożny, S. (eds) Consensual Processes. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20533-0_20

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