Trust-Based Decision Making for Food-Energy-Water Actors

Abstract

One of the examples for a field that involves significant decisions is Food-Energy-Water (FEW) sectors. The decisions in this sector can affect a large number of people, their results may not disappear in a short period of time, and multiple stakeholders are involved in the decision-making process. In this paper, we proposed an advanced decision support system for FEW actors and experimented scenarios including different solution proposal criteria and solution evaluation methods as well as scenarios with different trust sensitivities of the actors. Results showed that when actors follow proposal criteria considering their trust, proposed solutions receive a higher acceptance rate by the community. Also, when the actors are sensitive to the trust measured by the framework, they are more likely to propose move on to the solution with a higher acceptance rate.