A preemptive goal programming method for aggregating OWA operator weights in group decision making

This paper reveals that OWA operator weights cannot be aggregated by the weighted arithmetic or geometric average method in group decision making. A preemptive goal programming method (PGPM) is proposed for aggregating OWA operator weights, which is an extension of the minimax disparity approach developed earlier by the same authors. The effectiveness of PGPM is illustrated with a numerical example. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.