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A Consensus Based VIKOR Method Using the 2-Tuple Linguistic Model

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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 362))

Abstract

Consensus plays a key role in group decision making where the participants in a group want to achieve some predefined degree of accordance. In this paper, based on the 2-tuple linguistic model, a consensus reaching process for multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problem is introduced. Then a classical VIKOR method is extended based on the consensus process. Therefore, an intergraded MADGM approach combining the consensus process and VIKOR method is presented. Finally, a numerical example is illustrated to validate the practicality of the proposed approach.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71301110) and the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 13XJC630015) and also supported by Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20130181120059) and supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. Uncertainty Decision-making Laboratory, Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, People’s Republic of China

    Zhibin Wu, Kang Xu & Lin Zhong

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  3. Industrial Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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Wu, Z., Xu, K., Zhong, L. (2015). A Consensus Based VIKOR Method Using the 2-Tuple Linguistic Model. In: Xu, J., Nickel, S., Machado, V., Hajiyev, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47241-5_37

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