An approach to group decision making based on interval fuzzy preference relations

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems where the decision information given by decision makers takes the form of interval fuzzy preference relations. We first give an index to measure the similarity degree of two interval fuzzy preference relations, and utilize the similarity index to check the consistency degree of group opinion. Furthermore, we use the error-propagation principle to determine the priority vector of the aggregated matrix, and then develop an approach to group decision making based on interval fuzzy preference relations. Finally, we give an example to illustrate the developed approach.

Keywords

Group decision making / interval fuzzy preference relation / similarity index / aggregation

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