Web-Base Group Decision Support System for Information Security Decision Making in Case of Indian E-Government Systems

Abstract:

This paper presents a web base multicriteria group decision support system for evaluating information security policy decision making with respect to Indian e-government system. This study first proposes a rational-political group decision-making model which identifies three uncertain factors involved in a group decision-making process: decision maker’s roles in a group reaching a satisfactory solution, preferences for alternatives and judgments for assessment criteria. Based on the model, a linguistic term oriented multi criteria group decision-making method is developed. The method uses general fuzzy number to deal with the three uncertain factors described by linguistic terms and aggregates these factors into a group satisfactory decision that is in a most acceptable degree of the group. Moreover, this study implements the method by developing a web-based group decision support system. This system allows decision makers to participate a group decision-making through the web, and manages the group decision-making process as a whole, from criteria generation, alternative evaluation, opinions interaction to decision aggregation. An information security decision making problem is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 403-408)
• Pages: 954-962
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.403-408.954
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Mayur Gaigole, Nilay Khere
• Keywords: Fuzzy Decision-Making, Group Decision Making, Information Security, Linguistic Terms, Web-Based Systems

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