A Decision Support System and Visualisation Tools for AHP-GDM

The Precise Consistency Consensus Matrix (PCCM) is a decisional tool for AHP-Group Decision Making (AHP-GDM). Based on the initial pairwise comparison matrices of the individuals, the PCCM constructs a consensus matrix for the group using the concept of consistency. This paper presents a decision support system (PRIOR-PCCM) that facilitates the construction of the PCCM in the context of AHP-GDM, and the calculus of four indicators that allows comparison of the behaviour of group consensus matrices. PRIOR-PCCM incorporates the possibility of considering different weights for the decision makers and includes a module that permits the extension of the initial PCCM which can achieve the minimum number of non-null entries required for deriving priorities or establishing a complete PCCM matrix. It also includes two cardinal indicators for measuring consistency and compatibility and two ordinal indicators for evaluating the number of violations of consistency and priority. The paper introduces some new visualisation tools that improve comprehension of the process followed for obtaining the PCCM matrix and allow the cognitive exploitation of the results. These original contributions are illustrated with a case study.

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Validation of a Model Appropriateness Framework Using the Elbe Decision Support System

Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-881-4.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 193-218

Author(s):

Yue-Ping Xu ◽

Martijn J. Booij

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

River Basin ◽

Support System ◽

River Basin Management ◽

Development Stage ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Basin Management ◽

Use Of Models

This paper describes validation of an appropriateness framework, which has been developed in a former study, to determine appropriate models under uncertainty in a decision support system for river basin management. Models are regarded as ‘appropriate’ if they produce final outputs within adequate uncertainty bands that enable decision-makers to distinguish or rank different river engineering measures. The appropriateness framework has been designed as a tool to stimulate the use of models in decision-making under uncertainty and to strengthen the communication between modelers and decision-makers. Through the application to a different river with different objectives in this validation study from the river used in the development stage, this paper investigates whether the appropriateness framework works in a different situation than it was designed for. Recommendations from the development stage are taken into account in this validation case study as well. The final results from the study showed a successful validation of the appropriateness framework and suggested further possibilities for the application in decision support systems for river basin management.

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINES THE PURCHASE OF HOUSE RIGHT USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) AND BORDA METHODS

JOURNAL ASRO ◽

10.37875/asro.v10i1.85 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Didit Herdiawan Ashaf ◽

Sutikno Wahyu Hidayat ◽

Ahmadi Ahmadi

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Group Decision Making ◽

Support System ◽

Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽

Group Decision ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Home Purchase ◽

Hierarchy Process

Increasing population growth also contributes to the increasing need for homes or dwellings as basic human needs. Many ways people do to meet these needs, among others, by buying from someone else, building it yourself or by buying a house in a housing developer. Houses besides being a basic human need, it is also used as an indicator of one's success and as an asset for business development and an increase in the economic value of the owner. Prospective home buyers certainly have criteria that are considered in choosing a house. Many of the existing criteria are often followed by the availability of more than one choice of the house to be able to meet these criteria. Therefore, the writer tries to try to make a Decision Support System in a Home Purchase that will later help prospective home buyers in deciding which house to buy. The decision-making method used in this system is an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) as a form of decision-making model that is suitable for multi-criteria and multi-alternative problems with the main input being human perception. Combined with the Borda method which is one method of group decision making that can combine the results of perceptual analysis (the results of AHP analysis) from several decision makers. it is necessary to have a group decision-making technique (group decision support system). So that the resulting home purchase decision can be accepted by all decision makers (family). From the results of the calculation and voting process, House X was chosen with 9 votes. Keywords: Home Purchase, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Borda

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A Multicriteria Group Decision Support System

Research Anthology on Decision Support Systems and Decision Management in Healthcare, Business, and Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-9023-2.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107-133

Author(s):

Nesrine Hamdani ◽

Djamila Hamdadou

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Web Service ◽

Support System ◽

Group Decision ◽

Multicriteria Analysis ◽

Group Decision Support ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Group Decision Support System ◽

Voting Methods

In the present study, the authors propose a group decision support system (Web-GDSS), which allows multi-agents systems and multicriteria analysis systems to help decision-makers in order to obtain a collective decision, using web services. The proposed system operates on two main stages. First, decision-makers are in a different location away from each other. They must store their location in databases and invoke the appropriate web service. Second, in the case of negotiation between decision-makers, monotonic concession protocol will lead to an agreement using CONDORCET and BORDA voting methods.

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A Communication Platform for Group Decision Support System

Research Anthology on Decision Support Systems and Decision Management in Healthcare, Business, and Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-9023-2.ch033 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 678-702

Author(s):

Mounya Abdelhadi ◽

Djamila Hamdadou ◽

Nabil Menni

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Group Decision ◽

Multicriteria Analysis ◽

Negotiation Process ◽

Group Decision Support ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Group Decision Support System ◽

Communication Platform

In a group decision support system, the various decision-makers have their own information, constrains, decision strategies, preferences, and objectives which are generally not shared or communicated. This implies that the group decision process is distributed between the different entities implicated and impacted by various group members' characteristics. Solution to this problem is to find a decision that would be acceptable to all the decision-makers, following the necessity of a negotiation process that allows the elaboration of a common agreement for a group that faces a conflict on the decision to take. In the current study, the authors propose to establish a communication platform for a group decision support system (GDSS) based on web services, incorporating a multicriteria analysis methods and a negotiation protocol.

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Towards Spatial Decision Support System for Animals Traceability

Computational Methods for Agricultural Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-871-1.ch018 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 389-411

Author(s):

Marcos Visoli ◽

Sandro Bimonte ◽

Sônia Ternes ◽

François Pinet ◽

Jean-Pierre Chanet

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Spatial Decision Support System ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Accurate Data ◽

Spatial Decision Support ◽

New Generation

Animal traceability is a very important question for several government and private institutions from many points of view: economical, sanitary, etc. Traditional systems are able to memorize the main bovine movements, or to capture the geolocation of an animal using RFID. Now it should be possible to envisage a new generation of traceability systems in which the different locations are automatically recorded several times per day for each animal. These systems should also be coupled with analysis techniques to help decision-makers to take decisions, validate and/or reformulate their hypothesis. In this chapter the authors present a spatial decision support system dedicated to the animal geolocation acquisitions and analysis of possible sanitary problems. Indeed, in case of sanitary alerts, the system is able to determine the animals which have been in contact with a diseased animal exploiting historical trajectories of animals. It is applied to traceability of beef cattle using the Brazilian production system as a case study. OTAG focuses on improving methods and geotechnologies for recording reliable and accurate data on beef production.

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A Communication Platform for Group Decision Support System

International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications ◽

10.4018/ijesma.2018070102 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 19-41

Author(s):

Mounya Abdelhadi ◽

Djamila Hamdadou ◽

Nabil Menni

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Group Decision ◽

Multicriteria Analysis ◽

Negotiation Process ◽

Group Decision Support ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Group Decision Support System ◽

Communication Platform

In a group decision support system, the various decision-makers have their own information, constrains, decision strategies, preferences, and objectives which are generally not shared or communicated. This implies that the group decision process is distributed between the different entities implicated and impacted by various group members' characteristics. Solution to this problem is to find a decision that would be acceptable to all the decision-makers, following the necessity of a negotiation process that allows the elaboration of a common agreement for a group that faces a conflict on the decision to take. In the current study, the authors propose to establish a communication platform for a group decision support system (GDSS) based on web services, incorporating a multicriteria analysis methods and a negotiation protocol.

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The Impact of Group Decision Support Systems on Group Consensus Processes and Outcomes

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193129403800406 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 215-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Suvit Nopachai ◽

Sherry Perdue Casali

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Group Decision ◽

Group Decision Support ◽

Decision Quality ◽

Group Decision Support System ◽

Group Consensus ◽

The Impact ◽

Consensus Decision

An experiment was conducted to examine how the use of a group decision support system (GDSS) influences the formation of group consensus. In a task requiring group members to jointly prioritize a list of items, 12 groups of eight members each were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions involving different levels of technological meeting support: (1) a group decision support system, (2) a manual counterpart to the structure imposed by the GDSS, and (3) no structured support. Measures of group consensus and perceived consensus, decision quality and perceived decision quality, and perceived opportunity to express views were made. The results revealed that the measures of consensus, decision quality and perceived decision quality, and perceived opportunity to express views were all similar across the three levels of technology investigated. Only perceived consensus was found to vary across conditions. The practical implications of these results are discussed.

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Development and implementation of an interactive Spatial Decision Support System for decision makers in Benin to evaluate agricultural land resources—Case study: AGROLAND

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ◽

10.1016/j.jag.2009.09.005 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. S38-S44 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rainer Laudien ◽

Mathias Pofagi ◽

Julia Roehrig

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Spatial Decision Support System ◽

Land Resources ◽

Spatial Decision Support

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Towards a Group Decision Support System

International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.4018/ijdai.2018010101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Souad Madouri ◽

Djamila Hamdadou

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Group Decision ◽

Group Decision Support ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Shopping Mall ◽

Group Decision Support System ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Hierarchy Process

This research focuses on the design and development of an interactive multi-criteria group decision support system (GDSS). This system comprises a set of agents communicating through messages. They aim to find an adequate area that can best address certain criteria among a set of variants (e.g. localization of new infrastructure, shopping mall, hospital, etc.). A GDSS is designed and relies mainly on the presentation of the territory through the functionalities of geographic information system (GIS), and the representation of the multiplicity and diversity of decision makers through the functionalities of a multi-agents system (MAS). Moreover, an argumentation-based negotiation protocol MAS module is provided. This approach is justified by the argumentative nature of the process by which participants justify their choices in order to reach a collective decision. This is achieved by exploiting the multi-criteria methods with an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Electre III.

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