Title: Preferential voting in the presence of undesirable voters

Authors: Mehdi Soltanifar; Hamid Sharafi

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran ' Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: Multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) methods have always been considered by managers as a tool to support decision making. One of the best methods is to select based on expert opinions. In fact, providing models for aggregating the votes of voters in the group decision making is a subject that has always attracted researchers' attention. We aimed, in this paper, to present a model for aggregating the votes of voters who have been divided by the decision maker (DM) into two groups of desirable and undesirable ones. The proposed model has been explained by presenting its application while a numerical example and case study have also been provided.

Keywords: preferential voting; undesirable voter; data envelopment analysis; DEA; group decision making; multi-attribute decision making; MADM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2022.126108

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, 2022 Vol.15 No.6, pp.753 - 766

Received: 11 Jun 2021
Accepted: 08 Aug 2021
Published online: 11 Oct 2022 *

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