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When a committee of experts is formed with the aim to make a decision of social or economic relevance, the various competencies act in order to produce an equilibrium among the features that characterize the alternatives or the objectives, that constitute the choice that the committee is called to make. It is worth to remark that, in some circumstances, the committee behave as a unique body, whose organs, the experts, share the same opinions and select the same choice. When this occurs, the committee has reached unanimous consensus.
More frequently only a majority of the experts agree about a final choice and circumscribe a precise decision to make. Also in this case we speak of consensus reached by, or inside, the committee.
The mechanisms for enhancing, and possibly, reaching consensus are here studied by means of the definition of dynamical models, geometric and game theoretical in nature.
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Maturo, A., Squillante, M., Ventre, A.G.S. (2013). Dynamical Models for Representing and Building Consensus in Committees. In: Proto, A., Squillante, M., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Advanced Dynamic Modeling of Economic and Social Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32903-6_2
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