Abstract The arrival of Big Data era has brought large, complex, and growing data generated
from numerous sources. Due to the power in felicitous decision making based on diverse …

The society in the digital transformation era demands new decision schemes such as e-
democracy or based on social media. Such novel decision schemes require the participation …

With the development of Internet technologies, the shipping industry has also entered the
Industry 4.0 era, which is the era of using information technology to promote industrial …

Because of the complexity of real-world problems, large-scale group decision making has
become a research topic of great interest in the field of decision science. Differences of …

In group decision making problems, it is almost impossible to have a homogeneous group of
decision makers whose experiences, attitudes, knowledge are the same or similar …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM), which involves dozens to hundreds of
decision-makers (DMs), is attracting extensive attention and has become an interesting and …

Why are group decisions so hard? Since the beginning of human history, people have made
decisions in groups--first in families and villages, and now as part of companies …

Group decisions are ubiquitous in everyday life. Even when decisions are made individually,
decision-makers often receive advice or suggestions from others. Thus, decisions are often …

In the past 10 years, a large number of consensus-reaching approaches for group decision
making (GDM) have been proposed. While these methods either focus on the cost of the …

The last decade witnessed tremendous developments in social media and e-democracy
technologies. A fundamental aspect in these paradigms is that the number of decision …