RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Ordinal proximity measures in the context of unbalanced qualitativescales and some applications to consensus and clustering A1 García Lapresta, José Luis A1 Pérez Román, David K1 Decision making AB In this paper, we introduce ordinal proximity measures in the setting of unbalanced qualitative scales by comparing the proximities between linguistic terms without numbers, in a purely ordinal approach. With this new tool, we propose how to measure the consensus in a set of agents when they assess a set of alternatives through an unbalanced qualitative scale. We also introduce an agglomerative hierarchical clustering procedure based on these consensus measures. PB Elsevier SN 1568-4946 YR 2015 FD 2015 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21500 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21500 LA eng NO Applied Soft Computing, 2015, vol. 35, p. 864–872 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 24-nov-2024