An overview on feedback mechanisms with minimum adjustment or cost in consensus reaching in group decision making: Research paradigms and challenges

H Zhang, S Zhao, G Kou, CC Li, Y Dong, F Herrera - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process is a very powerful decision tool to eliminate the preference
conflict in group decision making. In general, the consensus is achieved by the decision …

Enhanced minimum-cost consensus: Focusing on overadjustment and flexible consensus cost

SM Yu, XT Zhang, Z Du - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Minimum-cost consensus (MCC) using the optimization-based consensus rule (OR) has
been developed and widely applied to various group decision-making (GDM) contexts …

A bidirectional feedback mechanism for balancing group consensus and individual harmony in group decision making

M Cao, J Wu, F Chiclana, E Herrera-Viedma - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
This article proposes a bidirectional feedback mechanism for consensus in group decision
making (GDM) driven by the behavior of decision makers (DMs), which is discriminated with …

Consensus efficiency in group decision making: A comprehensive comparative study and its optimal design

H Zhang, Y Dong, F Chiclana, S Yu - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching processes (CRPs) aim to help decision-makers achieve agreement
regarding the solution to a common decision problem, and consequently play an …

Maximum fuzzy consensus feedback mechanism with minimum cost and private interest in group decision-making

B Zhang, Y Dong, X Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In group decision-making, the consensus reaching process (CRP) is usually designed as an
interactive discussion and negotiation process to guide decision-makers in modifying their …

An interactive consensus reaching model with updated weights of clusters in large-scale group decision making

H Liao, Z Wu, M Tang, Z Wan - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process generates a group decision approved by all experts despite
their possible divergent preferences. To circumvent a calculated and nominal consensus …

Impact of decision rules and non-cooperative behaviors on minimum consensus cost in group decision making

W Xu, X Chen, Y Dong, F Chiclana - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2021 - Springer
In group decision making, it is sensible to achive minimum consensus cost (MCC) because
the consensus reaching process resources are often limited. In this endeavour, though …

Fairness concern: An equilibrium mechanism for consensus-reaching game in group decision-making

F Jing, X Chao - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
For many group decision-making (GDM) issues, such as water-resource allocation, urban
resettlement, and traffic-route planning, the benefits of the decision makers (DMs) are …

A feedback mechanism with bounded confidence-based optimization approach for consensus reaching in multiple attribute large-scale group decision-making

Q Zha, H Liang, G Kou, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different feedback mechanisms have been developed in large-scale group decision-making
(GDM) to provide the decision-makers with advices for preference adjustment with the aim of …

[HTML][HTML] How to determine the consensus threshold in group decision making: a method based on efficiency benchmark using benefit and cost insight

X Chao, Y Dong, G Kou, Y Peng - Annals of Operations Research, 2022 - Springer
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 …