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Two-Person Fair Division with Additive Valuations 二人公平分配加法估值

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09885-x

D. Marc Kilgour, Rudolf Vetschera

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Determination of a Representative Collective Value Function Through a Value Function-Based Consensus-Reaching Process 通过基于价值函数的达成共识过程确定具有代表性的集体价值函数

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09883-z

Kun Zhou, Zaiwu Gong, Xiaoqing Chen, Roman Słowiński

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Group Risky Choice and Resource Allocation Under Social Comparison Effects 社会比较效应下的群体风险选择和资源分配

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09875-z

Xia Chen, Yucheng Dong, Ying He

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An Integrated Approach to Preferential Voting Models with Variable Weights for Rank Positions 排名位置权重可变的优先投票模型综合方法

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09874-0

Byeong Seok Ahn

{"title":"An Integrated Approach to Preferential Voting Models with Variable Weights for Rank Positions","authors":"Byeong Seok Ahn","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09874-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09874-0","url":null,"abstract":"In a ranked voting system, voters select a subset of candidates and rank them from most to least preferred. Data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based voting models, among others, are used to determine the rank-position weights most favorable for each candidate, with the goal of achieving the highest aggregate score. However, concerns have been raised about the weights assigned to each rank position, as well as the potential for rank reversal of some candidates resulting from changes in votes earned by other candidates. To address these issues, some authors have developed two improved models. These models aim to incorporate the constraints of candidates that are not being evaluated into a single restriction, preventing inefficient candidates from influencing the order of efficient candidates. Moreover, these models treat the parameters used to make the distance between successive ranks as variable weights, and calculate average efficiency scores of candidates while considering the entire range of parameters. In this study, we revisit the two improved models and explore an alternative approach based on results from linear algebra and convex analysis, which is more intuitive and easier to understand. Furthermore, we provide closed-form optimal solutions for DEA-based voting models that share the common goal of maximizing the distance between successive ranks while considering both efficiency-related and weight constraints. The analysis of these four models offers a better understanding of their similarities and differences.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140299800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coalition Stability in International Environmental Matching Agreements 国际环境匹配协议中的联盟稳定性

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09878-w

Charlotte Süring, Hans-Peter Weikard

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Efficiency of Community-Based Content Moderation Mechanisms: A Discussion Focused on Birdwatch 基于社区的内容管理机制的效率：以《鸟类观察》为重点的讨论

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09881-1

Chenlong Wang, Pablo Lucas

{"title":"Efficiency of Community-Based Content Moderation Mechanisms: A Discussion Focused on Birdwatch","authors":"Chenlong Wang, Pablo Lucas","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09881-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09881-1","url":null,"abstract":"As user-generated online content has been flourishing with both useful information and misinformation. One of the complexities surrounding such phenomena is its huge amounts of data and its associated difficulties to effectively moderate content, particularly as most initiatives are centralised and fraught with its intrinsic trust issues. One of the few examples using mainly a decentralised (i.e., community-driven) mechanism is Twitter’s Community Notes (once named as Birdwatch) experimental project. This paper thus is about testing the efficiency of such community-based content moderation mechanism and scenarios of interest aiming to better understanding how the users themselves better moderate online content. This is done through an agent-based approach and three conclusions are discussed in detail: (1) to some extent the community is able to fight against misinformation, (2) a Birdwatch-like mechanism can indeed boost the community’s content moderation ability, but there is a nontrivial trade-off between social influence and content timeliness and (3) a simple proposition, in the form of a reminder mechanism to users, cannot fulfil the task of improving the content moderation efficiency, which means a different approach to design is needed.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Smart Contract Application in Resisting Extreme Weather Risks for the Prefabricated Construction Supply Chain: Prototype Exploration and Assessment 智能合同在预制建筑供应链抵御极端天气风险中的应用：原型探索与评估

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09877-x

Zhu-Jun Wang, Yangyang Sun, Qin Su, Muhammet Deveci, Kannan Govindan, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Zhen-Song Chen

{"title":"Smart Contract Application in Resisting Extreme Weather Risks for the Prefabricated Construction Supply Chain: Prototype Exploration and Assessment","authors":"Zhu-Jun Wang, Yangyang Sun, Qin Su, Muhammet Deveci, Kannan Govindan, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Zhen-Song Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09877-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09877-x","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing frequency of extreme weather (EW) events has created significant vulnerabilities in the normal operations of the prefabricated construction supply chain (PCSC). This study aims to enhance the resilience of the PCSC against EW by utilizing smart contracts. The study proposes a prototype smart contract application to mitigate the risks posed by EW to the PCSC. Additionally, it identifies 28 potential barriers affecting smart contract adoption in the PCSC using the Technology-Organization-Environment framework. Furthermore, the paper presents a multi-objective optimization-based group decision-making method to assess the feasibility of smart contract adoption in the PCSC. An online survey was then conducted among 50 stakeholders from various links of the PCSC to gather insights into smart contract adoption. The results indicate that stakeholder awareness of smart contracts and the current corporate level are the most influential factors in decision-making. This research extends the application of smart contracts to risk management within the PCSC, offering valuable insights for stakeholders to enhance resilience and address the adverse effects of EW proactively.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Outranking-Based Approach Modeling Satisfaction–Dissatisfaction Intensity, Preference Dependence, and Discordance Strength in Group Decision 基于排序的方法，为群体决策中的满意-不满意强度、偏好依赖性和不和谐强度建模

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09880-2

Eduardo Fernández, José Rui Figueira, Jorge Navarro, Efrain Solares

{"title":"An Outranking-Based Approach Modeling Satisfaction–Dissatisfaction Intensity, Preference Dependence, and Discordance Strength in Group Decision","authors":"Eduardo Fernández, José Rui Figueira, Jorge Navarro, Efrain Solares","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09880-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09880-2","url":null,"abstract":"There are numerous proposals for Group Decision-Making (GDM) inspired by the ELECTRE multiple criteria decision approach. These proposals capitalize on ELECTRE's resemblance to certain voting systems and its ability to navigate veto situations. However, while ELECTRE-based methods have commendable features for establishing the credibility degree of the predicate “x is collectively considered at least as good as y”, they do not address three relevant issues: (1) the reinforced preference in favor of x exhibited by certain members of the group; (2) the strength of the coalition of Decision-Makers (DMs) who favor y over x; and (3) the effects of preference dependence (complementarity, redundancy, antagonism) among different DMs. This paper addresses group ranking problems within scenarios where a group is under the control of a special powerful actor, called a “Supra-Decision Maker”, or when a group adheres to a predetermined system of rules agreed upon by its members. Unlike other ELECTRE-based methods for GDM, this proposal comprehensively addresses the issues (1), (2) and (3) to determine the credibility degree of the collective outranking predicate. This determination can be utilized to derive a collective ranking or another form of recommendation in GDM. This proposal is expected to excel in a collaborative organizational environment where group members express genuine judgments, devoid of malicious intentions to manipulate collective decisions. Moreover, it has relevance in socially oriented decision-making contexts, especially when government agencies seek to reconcile opinions of diverse stakeholder groups with highly contradictory points of view. In such scenarios, where phenomena such as preference dependence, reinforced preference, and intense disagreement manifest, this proposal could offer valuable insights.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Markov Chain-Based Group Consensus Method with Unknown Parameters 基于马尔可夫链的未知参数群体共识法

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09876-y

Chao Fu, Wenjun Chang

{"title":"A Markov Chain-Based Group Consensus Method with Unknown Parameters","authors":"Chao Fu, Wenjun Chang","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09876-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09876-y","url":null,"abstract":"Group consensus (GC) is important for generating a group solution satisfactory or acceptable to most decision-makers in a group. Its convergency usually depends on several rounds of iterations and becomes more difficult with unknown parameters because GC is usually associated with parameters. To address the GC with unknown parameters, this paper proposes a Markov chain-based GC method, in which criterion weights and expert weights are considered as parameters. Given the interval-valued assessments of decision-makers, the GC at the alternative and global levels is defined. Based on the Markov chain, a two-hierarchical randomization algorithm is designed with unknown criterion weights to determine the transition probability matrix used to generate the stable GC. To accelerate the stable GC’s convergency, criteria significantly contributing negatives to the stable GC are identified and suggestions on helping renew decision-makers’ assessments on the identified criteria are provided. On the condition that the stable GC is definitely satisfied, a GC-based two-hierarchical randomization algorithm is designed based on the Markov chain to determine the transition probability matrix for generating the stable ranking value distribution of each alternative. The proposed method is employed to analyze a development mode selection problem. It is compared with the stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis and simple additive weighting methods based on the problem by calculation and principle.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Critical Exploration of Bargaining in Purchasing and Supply Management: A Systematic Literature Review 采购与供应管理中讨价还价的批判性探索：系统性文献综述

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Group Decision and Negotiation Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10726-024-09879-9

Stephen Kelly, Daniel Chicksand

{"title":"A Critical Exploration of Bargaining in Purchasing and Supply Management: A Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Stephen Kelly, Daniel Chicksand","doi":"10.1007/s10726-024-09879-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09879-9","url":null,"abstract":"Bargaining with suppliers is a key Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) activity but there is considerable ambiguity over what bargaining entails and the concept currently lacks a systematic treatment, despite its significant interest to PSM professionals. The literature shows that bargaining can be seen as an adversarial approach to negotiation (in contrast to more integrative/collaborative ones) and also the back-and-forth discussion over price and other variables between buying and supplying organisations to reach an agreement. In addition, many will move between fundamentally distributive and integrative approaches as the discussions play out. A systematic literature review of the Scopus, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, JSTOR and Web of Science databases was undertaken to address this gap, identifying 427 relevant journal papers that were systematically analysed. First, descriptive techniques identified the trajectory of published papers, methods, theories and their industrial context. Second, content analysis identified the key constructs and associated operational measures/variables of bargaining. Third, the constructs have then been ordered temporally and by areas of location (organisational/departmental and individual levels) to generate a model and inform a series of practice-based recommendations at different stages of the bargaining process. The findings will allow future researchers to use the constructs either directly in developing focused hypotheses to test relationships or as a basis for refinement and extension in cumulative theory building and testing. In addition, a series of focused research gaps have been identified, such as addressing the current contradictory findings of the effect of purchasing volume or organisational size on bargaining power.","PeriodicalId":47553,"journal":{"name":"Group Decision and Negotiation","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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