Polarization in a group's opinions drives to disagreements and dissent among individuals,
which make it harder to achieve group satisfactory decisions. Within Group Decision Making …

The main challenges in large scale group decision making (LSGDM) problem are how to
tackle with the great number of participants and how to achieve a common solution accepted …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problems have drawn general attention from
scholars. The distribution linguistic preference relation (DLPR) is a flexible and practical tool …

In social network group decision making (SNGDM), the consensus reaching process (CRP)
is used to help decision makers with social relationships reach consensus. Many CRP …

In real-world decision problems, decision makers usually express their opinions with
different preference structures. In order to deal with the heterogeneous preference …

To date, a large number of consensus reaching processes (CRPs) have been reported in
group decision making (GDM). Trust relationships should be an essential element in …

Nowadays, online social networks, such as “Facebook” and “WeChat,” facilitate the
expression, diffusion, and interactions of individuals' opinions regarding various issues. In …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) has been widely studied to address
increasingly complex decision-making problems. The consensus-reaching process is …

Group decision-making (GDM) in large-group social network environment (LGSNE) has
attracted considerable attention in the field of decision science. Social relationships exist …

Minimum-cost consensus (MCC) using the optimization-based consensus rule (OR) has
been developed and widely applied to various group decision-making (GDM) contexts …