RT Journal Article T1 Using scoring functions in a group decision-making procedure with heterogeneous experts and qualitative assessments A1 García-Lapresta, José Luis A1 González Del Pozo, Raquel AB In this paper, we propose a group decision-making procedure to rank alternatives in the context of ordered qualitative scales that not necessarily are uniform (the proximities between consecutive terms of the scales can be perceived as different). The procedure manages two ordered qualitative scales. One of them is used to determine the weights of the experts according to their expertise, taking into account the assessments given by a decision-maker to the experts. And another one, that is used by the experts to assess the alternatives. In order to assign numerical scores to the linguistic terms of the ordered qualitative scales, we have introduced and analyzed some scoring functions. They are based on the concept of ordinal proximity measure that properly represents the ordinal proximities between the linguistic terms of the ordered qualitative scales. PB Springer YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108977 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108977 LA eng NO García-Lapresta, J. L., & González del Pozo, R. (2023). Using scoring functions in a group decision-making procedure with heterogeneous experts and qualitative assessments. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 161, 109004. 10.1016/j.ijar.2023.109004 NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. DS Docta Complutense RD 15 dic 2025