Coordination is essential for establishing and sustaining teamwork. Agents in a team must agree on their tasks plans, thus, group decision-making techniques are necessary to reach agreements teams. For instance, joint task, the agents can provide preferences alternative tasks, best could be selected by majority. Previous works assumed that only alternatives. However, when selecting task teamwor...

In this paper, a new soft computing group decision method based on the concept of compromise ratio is introduced for determining decision makers (DMs)' weights through the group decision process under uncertainty. In this method, preferences and judgments of the DMs or experts are expressed by linguistic terms for rating the industrial alternatives among selected criteria as well as the relativ...

We are living a change of paradigm regarding decision-making. On the one hand, there is growing need to make decisions in group at both professional and personal levels, on other it increasingly difficult for decision-makers meet same place time. The Web-based Group Decision Support Systems intend overcome this limitation, allowing contribute decision process anytime anywhere. However, they hav...

Authors’ Notes This chapter was written with the support of grants from the National Science Foundation to the first (SBR-9730822) and third (BCS-9905397) authors. Support to the second author was provided by the Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research 11610096 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. The chapter was completed while the third author held a N...