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June 9, 2019
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A Group Decision-Making Methodology with Incomplete Individual Beliefs Applied to e-Democracy

Publicated to: GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION. 24 (4): 633-653 - 2015-07-11 24(4), DOI: 10.1007/s10726-014-9401-y

Authors:

Mateos, Alfonso; Jimenez-Martin, Antonio; Rios-Insua, Sixto
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Affiliations

Tech Univ Madrid, Dept Artificial Intelligence, Madrid 28660, Spain - Author

Abstract

We consider the situation where there are several alternatives for investing a quantity of money to achieve a set of objectives. The choice of which alternative to apply depends on how citizens and political representatives perceive that such objectives should be achieved. All citizens with the right to vote can express their preferences in the decision-making process. These preferences may be incomplete. Political representatives represent the citizens who have not taken part in the decision-making process. The weight corresponding to political representatives depends on the number of citizens that have intervened in the decision-making process. The methodology we propose needs the participants to specify for each alternative how they rate the different attributes and the relative importance of attributes. On the basis of this information an expected utility interval is output for each alternative. To do this, an evidential reasoning approach is applied. This approach improves the insightfulness and rationality of the decision-making process using a belief decision matrix for problem modeling and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence for attribute aggregation. Finally, we propose using the distances of each expected utility interval from the maximum and the minimum utilities to rank the alternative set. The basic idea is that an alternative is ranked first if its distance to the maximum utility is the smallest, and its distance to the minimum utility is the greatest. If only one of these conditions is satisfied, a distance ratio is then used.
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Keywords

Ds/ahp methodE-democracyEvidential reasoning approachExpected utilityGroup decision-makingIncomplete individual beliefsPorto-alegreSupport-system

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position 94/192, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Management.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-25:

  • WoS: 5
  • Scopus: 8
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-25:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 40 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/37408/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 437
  • Downloads: 369
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MATEOS CABALLERO, ALFONSO) and Last Author (Rios-Insua, Sixto).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been JIMENEZ MARTIN, ANTONIO.

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Awards linked to the item

The paper was supported by Madrid Regional Government project S-2009/ESP-1685 and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project MTM2011-28983-C03-03.
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