Group-sharing, not Group-think: Understanding Foreign Policy Decision-Making through a Social Sharedness Approach

Social Decision-making in a Group Living Cichlid Fish Social Decision-making in a Group Living Cichlid Fish

Many animals fight to win resources, repel competitors or establish dominance in a social group. Mutualassessment of fighting ability, where competitors gather and compare information about their opponent’s as well as their own fighting ability has been the dominant theoretical framework for understanding decision-making during fights. However, self-assessment, where each individual has a cost ...

A fuzzy group decision making approach to construction project risk management

Implementation of the risk management concepts into construction practice may enhance the performance of project by taking appropriate response actions against identified risks. This research proposes a multi-criteria group decision making approach for the evaluation of different alternative response scenarios. To take into account the uncertainties inherent in evaluation process, fuzzy logic i...

A hybrid intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making approach for supplier selection

Due to the increasing competition of globalization, selection of the most appropriate supplier is one of the key factors for asupply chain management’s success. Due to conflicting evaluations and insufficient information about the criteria, Intuitionisticfuzzy sets (IFSs) considered as animpressive tool and utilized to specify the relative importance of the criteria. The aim of this paper is to...

Group Decision Making through Mediated Discussions

A novel approach in robust group decision making for supply strategic planning

Long-term planning is a challenging process for dealing with problems in big industries. Quick and flexible process of responding to the existing variable requirements are considered in such problems. Some of important strategic decisions which should be made in this field are, namely the way that manufacturing facilities should be applied as well as assignment and design the system of delivery...