title: DASACT: A decision aiding software for axiomatic consensus theory.
abstract: There have been various attempts, solutions, and approaches towards constructing an appropriate consensus tree based on a given set of phylogenetic trees. However, for practitioners, it is not always clear, for a given data set, which of these would create the most relevant consensus tree. In this paper, we introduce an open-source software called DASACT (Decision Aiding Software for Axiomatic Consensus Theory) created to assist practitioners on choosing the most appropriate consensus function. It is based on an exhaustive evaluation of axiomatic properties and consensus functions, which define the knowledge space as a concept lattice. Using a selection of axiomatic properties provided by the user, it is able to aid the user in choosing the most suitable function. DASACT is freely available at http://www.cs.unic.ac.cy/florent/software.htm.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Av., P.O. Box 24005, 1700 Nicosia, Cyprus. Electronic address: domenach.f@unic.ac.cy.
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Domenach
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Av., P.O. Box 24005, 1700 Nicosia, Cyprus.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tayari
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D032921:Consensus; D057225:Data Mining; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: Consensus theory; Decision aiding; Formal Concept Analysis; Knowledge representation