A New Approach to the Determination of Expert Weights in Multi-attribute Group Decision Making

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach based on optimization model to determine the weights of experts in the multi-attribute group decision. Firstly, by minimizing the sum of differences between individual evaluations and the overall consistent evaluations of all experts, a new optimization model is established for determining expert weights. Then, rigorous proof of the unique existence of solution is analyzed in detail, and the sequential least squares quadratic programming algorithm is adopted to solve the optimization model. Finally, the reasonableness of the new approach is verified by numerical experiments, i.e., the smaller the difference between the individual evaluations and the overall consistent evaluations, the larger the weights assigned to the corresponding individual.