Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking: An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations
Joint Authors
Danielson, Mats
Fasth, Tobias
Larsson, Aron
Ekenberg, Love
Source
Advances in Operations Research
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-09-27
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
One of the core complexities involved in evaluating decision alternatives in the area of public decision-making is to deal with conflicts.
The stakeholders affected by and involved in the decision often have conflicting preferences regarding the actions under consideration.
For an executive authority, these differences of opinion can be problematic, during both implementation and communication, even though the decision is rational with respect to an attribute set perceived to represent social welfare.
It is therefore important to involve the stakeholders in the process and to get an understanding of their preferences.
Otherwise, the stakeholder disagreement can lead to costly conflicts.
One way of approaching this problem is to provide means for comprehensive, yet effective stakeholder preference elicitation methods, where the stakeholders can state their preferences with respect to actions part of the current agenda of a government.
In this paper we contribute two supporting methods: (i) an application of the cardinal ranking (CAR) method for preference elicitation for conflict evaluations and (ii) two conflict indices for measuring stakeholder conflicts.
The application of the CAR method utilizes a do nothing alternative to differentiate between positive and negative actions.
The elicited preferences can then be used as input to the two conflict indices indicating the level of conflict within a stakeholder group or between two stakeholder groups.
The contributed methods are demonstrated in a real-life example carried out in the municipality of Upplands Väsby, Sweden.
We show how a questionnaire can be used to elicit preferences with CAR and how the indices can be used to semantically describe the level of consensus and conflict regarding a certain attribute.
As such, we show how the methods can provide decision aid in the clarification of controversies.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Fasth, Tobias& Larsson, Aron& Ekenberg, Love& Danielson, Mats. 2018. Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking: An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations. Advances in Operations Research،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Fasth, Tobias…[et al.]. Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking: An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations. Advances in Operations Research No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-14.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Fasth, Tobias& Larsson, Aron& Ekenberg, Love& Danielson, Mats. Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking: An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations. Advances in Operations Research. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1122569
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1122569