An Alternative Sorting Procedure for Interactive Group Decision Support Based on the Pseudo-criterion Concept

Abstract

An original interactive procedure is proposed, which aims at overcoming some of the major weaknesses of existing pseudocriterion based methods for group decision analysis. It refers to absolute judgements of feasible alternatives and is focused on complementary activities of opinion elicitation and robustness analysis. As a foundation, four interdependent principles are introduced – problem localization, interactivity on the basis of progressiveness approach, semiautomatic derivation of criteria weights according to selective effects of veto thresholds, and group consensus seeking. The principles are grounded and realized by appropriate methodological solutions.

Keywords

• Group Work
• Pseudo-criterion
• Alternative Sorting
• Fuzzy Relation
• Consensus
• decision support
• Multi-criteria Decision Analysis