Building Consensus in Group Decision-Making with Intuitionistic Reciprocal Preference Relations: An Analysis of Various Protocols of Information Granularity Distribution

On the one hand, to model experts' preferences in group decision-making, intuitionistic reciprocal preference relations have widely been used because they allow for accommodating hesitation degrees, which are inherent to all decision-making processes. On the other hand, an optimization of information granularity distribution has recently been applied to establish consensus during group decision-making processes. Concretely, a symmetric and uniform distribution of information granularity has been considered for intuitionistic reciprocal preference relations. However, there exist other protocols of information granularity distribution that could be used. Therefore, we aim to analyze all the information granularity distribution protocols and determine their effectiveness in building consensus through intuitionistic reciprocal preference relations. The performance of the different protocols is discussed by conducting some numerical experiments that help provide insights into the effectiveness of the protocols to build consensus.