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Group decision-making in animals

Nature, 2003
Groups of animals often need to make communal decisions, for example about which activities to perform, when to perform them and which direction to travel in; however, little is known about how they do so. Here, we model the fitness consequences of two possible decision-making mechanisms: 'despotism' and 'democracy'. We show that under most conditions,
L, Conradt, T J, Roper
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Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation

2021
The second edition of this defining handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration. It includes the origins, development, and prospects of electronic negotiation, as well as on-line or computer-based arbitration.
Kilgour, M., Eden, C.
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Compatible Group Decisions

2013
Individuals may draw different conclusions from the same information. For example, members of a jury may disagree on the verdict even though each member possesses the same information regarding the case under discussion. This happens because individuals can hold different reasonable positions based on the information they share.
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Group decision focusing on outliers

2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2011), 2011
This paper investigates a group decision problem focusing on outliers in a group. The group decision in this paper is considered as approximation of all individual opinions, which are given normalized crisp or interval values. The difference of an individual opinion from the group opinion represents his/her compromise in order to reach a consensus so ...
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On a Rule for Group Decision-making

Medical Care, 1969
WHEN a number of medical authorities give independent judgments about a medical case, for example, in the case of Utilization Review by multiple reviewers, there arises the question of how to report the results when opinions conflict. Zimmer and Odoroff3 have addressed this problem by proposing a construct called the Physician Index (PI) of a record ...
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Groups, collective decisions and markets

Journal of Economic Theory, 2011
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Hans Gersbach, Hans Haller
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Group Performance and Decision Making

Annual Review of Psychology, 2004
Theory and research on small group performance and decision making is reviewed. Recent trends in group performance research have found that process gains as well as losses are possible, and both are frequently explained by situational and procedural contexts that differentially affect motivation and resource coordination.
Norbert L, Kerr, R Scott, Tindale
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Preference Elicitation for Group Decisions

2014
Groups engaged in a mutual activity often need assistance in order to reach a joint decision. However, the group members’ personal preferences are often unknown and need to be collected. Querying for preferences can annoy the users. We suggest employing a voting mechanism that finds a winning item under incomplete settings.
Lihi Naamani Dery, Inon Golan, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach   +3 more
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Group decision support systems

Decision Support Systems, 1987
Abstract Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) has been a rapidly emerging field of the 1980's. Whereas conventional Decision Support Systems (DSS) help individual decision makers, GDSS are designed to help groups of senior management and professional groups reach concensus.
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Individual decisions and group decisions

Journal of Public Economics, 1978
Jean-Marie Blin, Mark A. Satterthwaite
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