Investigation of time to reach consensus on the work of technical committees on standardization based on regular Markov chains

Abstract

In this paper construct the mathematical model for consensus in technical committees for standardization (TC), based on the consensus model proposed DeGroot. The basic problems of achieving consensus in the development of consensus standards in terms of the proposed model are discussed. The results of statistical modeling characterizing the dependence of time to reach consensus on the number of members of the TC and their authoritarianism are presented. It has been shown that increasing the number of TC experts and authoritarianism negative impact on the time to reach a consensus and increase fragmentation of the TC.

Keywords

• technical standardization committees
• consensus
• standards
• regular Markov chains
• time to reach consensus