Refocusing Attention on Unobserved Attributes to Reach Consensus in Decision Making Problems Involving a Heterogeneous Group of Experts

摘要

A novel consensus reaching process over alternatives having a flexible collection of attributes is proposed. In this process, a moderator makes available to the participants a collection of attributes that might be detected by some experts but unobserved by others. Using this collection, the moderator can require each expert to refocus his/her attention on previously unobserved attributes and, thus, review his/her evaluations to increase the level of consensus. An example that illustrates the steps of this process is presented.