Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2052333
Heterogeneous group decision making with thermodynamical parameters
Peijia Ren
Zeshui Xu
Mohit Verma
Xiao-Jun Zeng
Huchang Liao
Xinxin Wang
Abstract
There often exist different types of information due to the subjective
and objective criteria in practical decision-making problems,
thus it is necessary to develop some efficient frameworks to
deal with the decision-making problems with heterogeneous
information. The paper proposes a framework for group decisionmaking
problems with heterogeneous information with thermodynamical
parameters consisting of three parts to achieving this
goal. The first part builds the rectifications of criteria weights
according to decision makers’ confidence in evaluations. The
second part adopts thermodynamical parameters to measure the
numerical values and the data distribution of heterogeneous
information to characterize the heterogeneous information fully.
The last part applies the TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for
Interactive and Multicriteria Decision Making) to aggregate the
decision-making results based on the characterized heterogeneous
information without transforming it into a unified form. By
depicting decision makers’ different sensitive attitudes towards
uncertainty by several mathematical expressions, experiments are
performed to assess the sensitive attitudes’ impacts on decisionmaking
results with the proposed framework. Finally, a case study
on the selection of a green supplier under the low-carbon economy
is provided to illustrate the flexibility and feasibility of the
proposed framework.
Keywords
Heterogeneous group decision making; multicriteria; thermodynamical parameters; uncertainty; risk
Hrčak ID:
302989
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Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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