CONFIDE: A Collective Decision-Making Procedure Using Confidence Estimates of Individual Judgements

摘要: An algorithm (termed CONFIDE) is proposed that may capture many of the benefits group decision making without necessity face-to-face interaction. The allows individual makers to differentially weight contributions from members according confidence with which each member holds their opinions. CONFIDE compared both decisions and simple averaging opinions on Lost-at-Sea ranking task. Results indicate that, in terms quality, produces solutions equal method significantly better than solution achieved by responses.