Title
Value-Based Consensus Measure on Verbal Opinions
Abstract
In the group decision-making process, consensus is an important indication of group agreement or reliability. Traditional methods to measure consensus refer mostly to gauging variance among the participants' opinions by transforming them into numbers in the interval scale. In this study we propose a value-based measure, in which verbal opinions are transformed into values by means of value functions. To understand how the proposed method performs, we conduct two experiments to compare its performance with the variance-based methods and the entropy measure. The results show that our method is appropriate to account for participants' consensus judgments based on verbal opinions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/HICSS.2005.669
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
traditional method,entropy measure,group agreement,variance-based method,value-based consensus measure,verbal opinion,verbal opinions,group decision-making process,important indication,value-based measure,consensus judgment,value function,information management,information theory,group decision making,robustness,entropy,probability distribution
Information theory,Information management,Computer science,Knowledge management,Robustness (computer science),Probability distribution,Management science,Interval Scale
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2268-8-1
1
0.35
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen-Feng Hsiao1444.94
Hsin-Hui Lin276730.86
Te-Ming Chang3162.76