Hierarchical influence diagrams for group decision process modeling

The use of traditional influence diagrams (IDs) for group decision-making modeling is limited. For this reason, a framework of hierarchical influence diagrams (HIDs) was proposed. First the definition of hierarchical influence diagrams was given, which is a set of influence diagrams organized in a hierarchical way. Those influence diagrams communicate with each other by three types of message passing. Then the evaluation algorithm for hierarchical influence diagrams was defined. Finally the HIDs modeling and evaluation process was illustrated using a group decision-making case. Hierarchical influence diagrams framework is a decomposition and combination methodology for decision-making process modeling, which widen the scope of application of influence diagrams into group decision making field.