This book offers a concise introduction and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in
the field of decision-making and consensus modeling with a special emphasis on fuzzy methods.
It consists of a collection of authoritative contributions reporting on the decision-making
process from different perspectives: from psychology to social and political sciences from
decision sciences to data mining and from computational sciences in general to artificial and
computational intelligence and systems. Written as a homage to Mario Fedrizzi for his scholarly
achievements creative ideas and long lasting services to different scientific communities it
introduces key theoretical concepts describes new models and methods and discusses a range of
promising real-world applications in the field of decision-making science. It is a timely
reference guide and a source of inspiration for advanced students and researchers
