Introducing disruption on stagnated Group Decision Making processes using Fuzzy Ontologies Morente Molinera, Juan Antonio Herrera Viedma, Enrique Group decision making Fuzzy ontologies Consensus measures In Group Decision Making processes, experts debate about how to rank a set of alternatives. It is usual that, at a certain point of the discussion, the debate gets stuck. In this paper, a novel Group Decision Making method for environments with a high number of alternatives is presented. Fuzzy Ontologies are used in order to represent the alternatives and their characteristics. Moreover, a novel stagnation analysis is used in order to determine if the debate gets stuck. If it does, the method modifies the alternatives set in order to introduce new options and remove the least popular ones. This way, the debate can revive since that the new alternatives provide different points of view. The presented method helps experts to conduct long and thorough debates in order for them to be able to make effective and reliable decisions. 2023-01-12T13:19:23Z 2023-01-12T13:19:23Z 2022-11-26 journal article J.A. Morente-Molinera... [et al.]. Introducing disruption on stagnated Group Decision Making processes using Fuzzy Ontologies, Applied Soft Computing, Volume 132, 2023, 109868, ISSN 1568-4946, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109868] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78957 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109868 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier