Sometimes, an individual may have vague information about the preference degree between two alternatives and can not estimate his preferences with an exact numerical value. Then, a possible approach is to use linguistic assessments instead of numerical values, that is, to suppose that the preference relations are assessed by means of linguistic terms. A scale of certainty expressions, linguisti...

Amajor challenge in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is to enable autonomous agents to allocate tasks and resources efficiently. This paper studies an extended approach to a problem we refer to as the Collective Iterative Allocation (CIA) problem. This problem involves a group of agents that progressively refine allocations of teams to tasks. This paper considers the case where the perfor...