Real-world systems are influenced by many ambiguous circumstances, which complicates planning, modelling, prediction of these systems and decision-making. Therefore, decision-making procedures often rely on the opinions of experts who express their standpoints from their own perspective. Depending on the structure of expert teams, experts’ opinions can vary broadly vary or may even contradict. Finding the best possible compromise of experts’ opinions is a basic need in such situations. Over many years of research at Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (ČZU), we have developed the unique BeCoMe (Best-Compromise-Mean) method for determining the optimum group decision, which corresponds to the best compromise/agreement of all experts’ opinions. The optimum decision is a result of a computationally complex fuzzy set mathematic model based on minimizing entropy.
The submitted tool based on the optimum BeCoMe method is a unique, helpful and easily available instrument in many decision-making situations, such as for decisions related to state security, public health, investments, flood prevention, energetic self-sufficiency, or IT contracts.
The instrument is based on the unique BeCoMe method. The advantages of the method include, in particular:
- the theoretically best possible compromise when making decisions based on expert standpoints or recommendations, even if individual standpoints are contradictory;
- ability to assess both the qualitative aspects of the decision problem (yes / no) and its quantitative parameters;
- allowing experts to express their views with crisp numbers, fuzzy numbers and Likert's linguistic expressions;
- speed; it provides a result immediately; and
- easy-to-access instrument with intuitive operation.
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