Measuring Consensus in Weak Orders

  1. José Luis García-Lapresta 1
  2. David Pérez-Román 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Libro:
Consensual Processes
  1. Herrera-Viedma, Enrique (coord.)
  2. García-Lapresta, J.L. (coord.)
  3. Kacprzyk, J. (coord.)
  4. Fedrizzi, M. (coord.)
  5. Nurmi, H. (coord.)
  6. Zadrożny, S. (coord.)

Editorial: Springer Alemania

ISBN: 978-3-642-20533-0

Año de publicación: 2011

Páginas: 213-234

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20533-0_13 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumen

In this chapter we focus our attention in how to measure consensus in groups of agents when they show their preferences over a fixed set of alternatives or candidates by means of weak orders (complete preorders). We have introduced a new class of consensus measures on weak orders based on distances, and we have analyzed some of their properties paying special attention to seven well-known distances.