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Nurmi, Hannu; Kacprzyk, Janusz; Fedrizzi, Mario

Probabilistic, fuzzy and rough concepts in social choice. (English) Zbl 0943.90588

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 95, No. 2, 264-277 (1996).
Summary: We discuss how intrinsic inconsistencies and negative results (concerning opinion aggregation) in social choice may be alleviated by plausible modifications of underlying assumptions and problem formulations, basically by the introduction of some impreciseness of a probabilistic, fuzzy and rough type. First, we discuss briefly probabilistic voting, and the use of fuzzy preference relations and fuzzy majorities. Then, in the main part, we proceed to the use of Pawlak’s rough sets theory in the analysis of crucial properties of voting schemes. In this framework we also discuss the concept of a distance between two voting schemes. Finally, we further explore difficult issues of how diverse types of impreciseness can be combined, and we consider in particular the combination of roughness with randomness and fuzziness in the context of spatial voting games.

Cited in 7 Documents

MSC:

90B50 Management decision making, including multiple objectives
91B14 Social choice
91B12 Voting theory
91B06 Decision theory
91B10 Group preferences

Keywords:

group decision making; social choice; voting; spatial voting game; probabilistic voting; fuzzy preference; fuzzy majority; fuzzy sets; rough sets
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\textit{H. Nurmi} et al., Eur. J. Oper. Res. 95, No. 2, 264--277 (1996; Zbl 0943.90588)
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