A Group Decision Making Approach Considering Self-Confidence Behaviors and Its Application in Environmental Pollution Emergency Management

Liu, Xia; Xu, Yejun; Ge, Yao; Zhang, Weike; Herrera, Francisco

doi:10.3390/ijerph16030385

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A Group Decision Making Approach Considering Self-Confidence Behaviors and Its Application in Environmental Pollution Emergency Management

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Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China

Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

School of Economics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

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Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(3), 385; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030385

Received: 1 December 2018 / Revised: 20 January 2019 / Accepted: 25 January 2019 / Published: 29 January 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Models for Sustainable and Coordinated Development of Environment, Economy, and Society)

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Self-confidence as one of the human psychological behaviors has important influence on emergency management decision making, which has been ignored in existing methods. To fill this gap, we dedicate to design a group decision making approach considering self-confidence behaviors and apply it to the environmental pollution emergency management. In the proposed method, the self-confident fuzzy preference relations are utilized to express experts’ evaluations. This new type of preference relations allow experts to express multiple self-confidence levels when providing their evaluations, which can deal with the self-confidence of them well. To apply the proposed group decision making method to environmental pollution emergency management, a novel determination of the decision weights of experts is given combining the subjective and objective weights. The subjective weight can be directly assigned by organizer, while the objective weight is determined by the self-confidence degree of experts on their evaluations. Afterwards, by utilizing the weighted averaging operator, the individuals’ evaluations can be aggregated into a collective one. To do that, some operational laws for self-confident fuzzy preference relations are introduced. And then, a self-confidence score function is designed to get the best solution for environmental pollution emergency management. Finally, some analyses and discussions show that the proposed method is feasible and effective. View Full-Text

Keywords: group decision making; self-confidence; decision weight; environmental pollution emergency management; score function

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Liu, X.; Xu, Y.; Ge, Y.; Zhang, W.; Herrera, F. A Group Decision Making Approach Considering Self-Confidence Behaviors and Its Application in Environmental Pollution Emergency Management. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 385. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030385

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Liu X, Xu Y, Ge Y, Zhang W, Herrera F. A Group Decision Making Approach Considering Self-Confidence Behaviors and Its Application in Environmental Pollution Emergency Management. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(3):385. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030385

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Liu, Xia, Yejun Xu, Yao Ge, Weike Zhang, and Francisco Herrera. 2019. "A Group Decision Making Approach Considering Self-Confidence Behaviors and Its Application in Environmental Pollution Emergency Management" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 3: 385. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030385

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