Inconsistent knowledge management (IKM) is a subject which is the common point of
knowledge management and conflict resolution. IKM deals with methods for reconciling …

Classical rough set theory is considered as a useful mathematical tool to deal with the
uncertainty of categorical data; a major deficiency of this model is its sensitivity to noise in …

The aim of this paper is to propose the Human Evolutionary Model (HEM) as a novel
computational method for solving search and optimization problems with single or multiple …

Social networks are a very popular channel for people to communicate with, to find, to
reference other users before making decisions, especially those concerning purchase. How …

Techniques for processing knowledge in collectives are more and more needed because of
rapidly increasing number of autonomous sources of knowledge in the world. Collective …

Condorcet and Borda first introduced the consensus theory in the eighteenth century when
they studied voting systems. Consensus problems have been investigated for a long time in …

In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a platform that can be used for time
synchronization and indoor positioning of mobile devices. The platform uses the Time …

If knowledge about some matter is gathered from different sources then its inconsistency
may appear. For a collective whose members have different knowledge states about the …

In the present paper, we initiate a multi attribute group decision making problems in the
presence of multi attribute and multi decision in decision making with preferences. Then …

Consensus can be used for working out an agreement during design conflict resolution. This
paper introduces an approach for consensus modelling in collaborative and distributed …