Article ID: | iaor20051880 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 154 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 98 |
End Page Number: | 109 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Herrera F., Herrera-Viedma E., Chiclana F., Luque M. |
In decision making, in order to avoid misleading solutions, the study of consistency when the decision makers express their opinions by means of preference relations becomes a very important aspect in order to avoid misleading solutions. In decision making problems based on fuzzy preference relations the study of consistency is associated with the study of the transitivity property. In this paper, a new characterization of the consistency property defined by the additive transitivity property of the fuzzy preference relations is presented. Using this new characterization a method for constructing consistent fuzzy preference relations from a set of