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Decision-making is an essential part of all processes where humans are involved. As the number of parameters to consider increases, the decision-making process becomes more challenging. Food-Energy-Water is one of the fields where decisions not only have substantial impacts on a large number of people; they also have both many parameters and involve a significant number of participants. In this paper, we build a Decision Support System and integrate a trust management framework to measure trust among stakeholders to help consensus in decision-making. Our results show that when stakeholders acknowledge trust, and they act considering their trust, consensus can be reached using less effort, that is a lower number of rounds in decision making. Also, we showed that acting based on trust helps stakeholders to change their behavior positively in long-term.
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This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1547411 and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) USDA Award 2017-67003-26057.
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Uslu, S., Ruan, Y., Durresi, A. (2019). Trust-Based Decision Support System for Planning Among Food-Energy-Water Actors. In: Barolli, L., Javaid, N., Ikeda, M., Takizawa, M. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 772. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93659-8_39
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