This volume contains an Open Access chapter. We have witnessed an avalanche of quantitative public measures over the past decades. Research in the social sciences has shown that rankings in particular are now a driving force of social change - both, desired and undesired - in many areas of...

Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- Group decision making -- Consensus reaching process -- Part II: Consensus models with the minimum adjustments and aggregation operators -- Minimum adjustments consensus models -- Maximum expert consensus models -- Part III: Consensus in the multiple attribute...