In the resolution of group decision making problems where the consensus process can not be held face to face by the experts it is usually difficult for them to be able to identify the closeness of the opinions of the rest of the experts, and thus, it is difficult to have a clear view of the current state of the consensus process. In this paper we present a tool that creates consensus diagrams t...

BACKGROUND Integrative medicine (IM) is currently the most commonly used term to describe the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into conventional medicine. In the definitions of IM the most important feature is the focus on evidence as crucial factor for therapeutic decision-making. However, there are discussions on the term "integrative medicine" with the most notable...

The reaching of consensus in group decision-making (GDM) problems is a common task in group decision processes. In this contribution, we consider GDM with linguistic information. Different experts may have different levels of knowledge about a problem and, therefore, different linguistic term sets (multi-granular linguistic information) can be used to express their opinions. The aim of this pap...

A phenomenon as complex as protein folding requires a complex model to approximate it. This thesis presents a bottom-up approach for building complex probabilistic models of protein secondary structure by incorporating the multiple information sources which we call experts. Expert opinions are represented by probability distributions over the set of possible structures. Bayesian treatment of a ...

Asset management requires the development of performance indicators (PIs) and decision procedures. Within the French RERAU methodology each rehabilitation criterion is assigned a grade out of four possible ones. This grade results from an aggregation of complementary PIs that use information derived from various sources: visual inspection, O&M data, network monitoring, etc. This paper focuses o...

BACKGROUND In modern psychiatry, deinstitutionalization of mentally ill became an essential part of improving state of being of those affected. Integration in community, despite obvious benefits, led to increase in social distance and rejection towards mentally ill. Social stigma affects different life domains of those afflicted, and therefore it is crucial to introduce methods to deal with it....

This paper focuses on updating a client’s beliefs about an event based on information about the different probabilities which various experts assess for that event. A substantial literature solves this problem when all experts assess their probabilities over the same partitioning of the possible outcomes of an event. But different experts often think about the same problem in quite different wa...