A social ties-based approach for group decision-making problems with incomplete additive preference relations

Q Liang, X Liao, J Liu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of Web 2.0 technology, a new paradigm has been developed that
allows many users to participate in decision-making processes within online social …

Managing consensus and self-confidence in multiplicative preference relations in group decision making

W Liu, H Zhang, X Chen, S Yu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Preference relations have been widely used in Group Decision Making (GDM) to represent
decision makers' preferences over alternatives. Recently, a new kind of preference relation …

Group decision making with heterogeneous preference structures: An automatic mechanism to support consensus reaching

B Zhang, Y Dong, E Herrera-Viedma - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2019 - Springer
In real-world decision problems, decision makers usually express their opinions with
different preference structures. In order to deal with the heterogeneous preference …

Multiple attribute consensus rules with minimum adjustments to support consensus reaching

B Zhang, Y Dong, Y Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents two novel consensus rules with minimum adjustments for multiple
attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. One rule is to minimize the distance …

Consensus reaching with two-stage minimum adjustments in multi-attribute group decision making: A method based on preference-approval structure and prospect …

J Long, H Liang, L Gao, Z Guo, Y Dong - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel consensus reaching method for multi-attribute group decision
making (MAGDM) problems with preference-approval structures in prospect theory. In this …

Measure-based group decision-making with principle-guided social interaction influence for incomplete information: A game theoretic perspective

Z Liu, Y Deng, RR Yager - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The consideration of social influence in solving group decision-making (GDM) problems has
caused widespread concern in recent years. In most cases, the interaction of experts and the …

A discrete consensus support model for multiple attribute group decision making

J Xu, Z Wu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
In multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), it is preferable that the set of experts
reach a high degree of consensus amongst their opinions before applying a selection …

Managing consensus and weights in iterative multiple-attribute group decision making

Y Dong, J Xiao, H Zhang, T Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This study put forwards a novel consensus framework to manage the consensus and
weights (ie, weights of the experts and attributes) in iterative multiple-attribute group …

Managing non-cooperative behaviors in consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making: An approach based on social network analysis

H Zhang, I Palomares, Y Dong, W Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
In consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, it is
frequent that some experts exhibit non-cooperative behaviors owing to the different areas to …

A consistency and consensus based decision support model for group decision making with multiplicative preference relations

Z Wu, J Xu - Decision Support Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
In group decision making (GDM) with multiplicative preference relations (also known as
pairwise comparison matrices in the Analytical Hierarchy Process), to come to a meaningful …