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A Group Multicriteria Approach

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Group decision support systems are developed to support a group engaged in decision-making process. These decision-making processes can also be seen from a multicriteria perspective. We present in this chapter group support system called GRoUp Support (GRUS) based on a multicriteria paradigm. The GRUS system has been tested and used in several contexts. Some experiments are conducted in a European project called RUC-APS and some other in a French national project called VGI4Bio, and finally we conducted some experiments in three different countries with Master and PhD students.

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Acknowledgment

Authors of this publication acknowledge the contribution of the Project 691249, RUC-APS: Enhancing and implementing knowledge-based ICT solutions within high-risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (www.ruc-aps.eu), funded by the European Union under their funding Scheme H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015

This work is partially supported by the project ANR-17-CE04-0012 VGI4bio.

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Camilleri, G., Zaraté, P. (2019). A Group Multicriteria Approach. In: Kilgour, D., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12051-1_17-1

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