• A model for continuous monitoring of patients with major depression in short and long term periods 

      Múgica Álvarez, Francisco; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Bagherpour, Solmaz; Baladón, Luisa; Serrano, Antoni (2016-12-19)
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      BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Major depressive disorder causes more human suffering than any other disease affecting humankind. It has a high prevalence and it is predicted that it will be among the three leading causes of ...
    • A qualitative approach for aggregating people's perceptions 

      Ruiz Vegas, Francisco Javier; Agell Jané, Núria; Sánchez Soler, Monica (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (ESADE), 2022)
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      The concept of perceptual map is introduced in this paper to capture the semantics of linguistic assessments of an individual in a qualitative reasoning scenario, concretely in hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets. In ...
    • A recommender system based on group consensus 

      Roselló Saurí, Llorenç; Prats Duaygues, Francesc; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria (2010)
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      This paper presents the foundation for a new methodology for a collaborative recommender system (RS). This methodology is based on the degree of consensus of a group of users stating their preferences via qualitative ...
    • Absolute order-of-magnitude reasoning applied to a social multi-criteria evaluation framework 

      Afsordegan, Arayeh; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria; Aguado Chao, Juan Carlos; Gamboa Jimenez, Gonzalo (2016-01)
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      A social multi-criteria evaluation framework for solving a real-case problem of selecting a wind farm location in the regions of Urgell and Conca de Barberá in Catalonia (northeast of Spain) is studied. This paper applies ...
    • Decision making under uncertainty using a qualitative TOPSIS method for selecting sustainable energy alternatives 

      Afsordegan, Arayeh; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria; Zahedi, Siamak; Cremades Oliver, Lázaro Vicente (2016-03-15)
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      Multi-criteria decision-making methods support decision makers in all stages of the decision-making process by providing useful data. However, criteria are not always certain as uncertainty is a feature of the real world. ...
    • Measuring the Consensus in Group Decision by means of Qualitative Reasoning 

      Roselló Saurí, Llorenç; Prats Duaygues, Francesc; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria (2009-11-09)
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      This paper presents a mathematical framework to assess the consensus found among different evaluators who use ordinal scales in group decision-making and evaluation processes. This framework is developed on the basis of ...
    • Multi-criteria decision making with linguistic labels: a comparison of two methodologies applied to energy planning 

      Afsordegan, Arayeh; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria; Cremades Oliver, Lázaro Vicente; Zahedi, Siamak (2014)
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      This paper compares two multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches based on linguistic label assessment. The first approach consists of a modified fuzzy TOPSIS methodology introduced by Kaya and Kahraman in 2011. ...
    • On fuzzy-qualitative descriptions and entropy 

      Prats Duaygues, Francesc; Roselló Saurí, Llorenç; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria (2016-08-01)
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      This paper models the assessments of a group of experts when evaluating different magnitudes, features or objects by using linguistic descriptions. A new general representation of linguistic descriptions is provided by ...
    • Using qualitative reasoning in modelling consensus in group decision-making 

      Roselló Saurí, Llorenç; Prats Duaygues, Francesc; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell Jané, Núria (Jure Zabkar, Ivan Bratko, 2009)
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      Ordinal scales are commonly used in rating and evaluation processes. These processes usually involve group decision making by means of an experts’ committee. In this paper a mathematical framework based on the qualitative ...