Transitivity analysis of preference relations under the impact of indifferent voters

Voting is a common way to reach consensus between decision makers with incompatible opinions in a practical situation. Under the situation with indifferent voters, the pairwise comparison matrix originating from a voting profile could be determined as a preference relation without additively recipro...

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Published in:Granular computing (Internet) Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 1451 - 1466
Main Authors: Liu, Fang, Qiu, Mei-Yu, Zhou, Da-Hai
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.11.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Intelligence
Engineering
Original Paper
Voters
Voting
Transitivity analysis
Voting paradox
Additive non-reciprocal preference relation (ANrPR)
Optimization-based method
ISSN:2364-4966, 2364-4974
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Summary:Voting is a common way to reach consensus between decision makers with incompatible opinions in a practical situation. Under the situation with indifferent voters, the pairwise comparison matrix originating from a voting profile could be determined as a preference relation without additively reciprocal property, which is recalled additive non-reciprocal preference relations (ANrPRs). In this paper, some transitivity properties of ANrPRs are addressed involving additive transitivity, weak transitivity, moderate transitivity, and strong transitivity. The considered transitivity properties of ANrPRs are measured by constructing a quantification index. The simple majority rule and a novel optimization-based method are proposed to determine the winner. It is observed that the transitivity properties of ANrPRs are closely related to the occurrence of some voting paradoxes.
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ISSN:2364-4966
2364-4974
DOI:10.1007/s41066-023-00380-3