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dc.contributor.authorAbolghasemi, Roza
dc.contributor.authorKhadka, Rabindra
dc.contributor.authorLind, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorEngelstad, Paal E.
dc.contributor.authorViedma, Enrique Herrera
dc.contributor.authorYazidi, Anis
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-02T14:57:39Z
dc.date.available2022-12-02T14:57:39Z
dc.date.created2022-10-21T15:35:21Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn0950-7051
dc.identifier.issn1872-7409
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3035703
dc.description.abstractIn group decision-making (GDM), fuzzy preference relations (FPRs) refer to pairwise preferences in the form of a matrix. Within the field of GDM, the problem of estimating missing values is of utmost importance, since many experts provide incomplete preferences. In this paper, we propose a new method called the entropy-based method for estimating the missing values in the FPR. We compared the accuracy of our algorithm for predicting the missing values with the best candidate algorithm from state of the art achievements. In the proposed entropy-based method, we took advantage of pairwise preferences to achieve good results by storing extra information compared to single rating scores, for example, a pairwise comparison of alternatives vs. the alternative’s score from one to five stars. The entropy-based method maps the prediction problem into a matrix factorization problem, and thus the solution for the matrix factorization can be expressed in the form of latent expert features and latent alternative features. Thus, the entropy-based method embeds alternatives and experts in the same latent feature space. By virtue of this embedding, another novelty of our approach is to use the similarity of experts, as well as the similarity between alternatives, to infer the missing values even when only minimal data are available for some alternatives from some experts. Note that current approaches may fail to provide any output in such cases. Apart from estimating missing values, another salient contribution of this paper is to use the proposed entropy-based method to rank the alternatives. It is worth mentioning that ranking alternatives have many possible applications in GDM, especially in group recommendation systems (GRS).en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Andalusian Government through the project P20 00673 and by the project PID2019- 103880RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI / 10.13039/501100011033.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKnowledge-Based Systems;Volume 256, 28 November 2022, 109860
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectEstimating missing valuesen_US
dc.subjectGroup decision-makingen_US
dc.subjectFuzzy preference relationsen_US
dc.subjectRankingen_US
dc.subjectPairwise preferencesen_US
dc.subjectGroup recommendation systemsen_US
dc.titlePredicting missing pairwise preferences from similarity features in group decision makingen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2022 The Authorsen_US
dc.source.articlenumber109860en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.109860
dc.identifier.cristin2063823
dc.source.journalKnowledge-Based Systemsen_US
dc.source.volume256en_US
dc.source.issue256en_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-11en_US
dc.relation.projectNorsk Senter for Forskningsdata: 631862en_US
dc.relation.projectJunta de Andalucía: P20 00673en_US
dc.relation.projectMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación/Agencia Estatal de Investigación: 10.13039/501100011033en_US
dc.relation.projectJunta de Andalucía: PID2019- 103880RB-I00en_US


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