This experimental study examined the effects of conscientiousness and competition on group decision quality. The participants this (240 undergraduate students, 175 females, 65 males) were divided into 40 groups High-conscientiousness (HC) traits Low-conscientiousness (LC) traits. Each consisted three people. task was to make a in two different settings, with without competition. exact logistic ...

This paper introduces multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) into group decision making to propose a multi-criteria group decision making model for credit risk analysis. This model can not only deal with multi-criteria and complicated practical problems, but also reduce individual subjective preference to support group decision-making. In this model, experts’ opinion is integrated by post-expert...

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...

The integration of data mining techniques with decision support systems to assist in dealing with information overload has received increased attention and importance over recent years. However, challenges remain regarding practical deployment and implementation of such integration, due to the increased complexity of decision making, system co-ordination and knowledge communication. It is the p...