… The consensus reaching process (CRP) is a dynamic and iterative process for improving the
consensus level among experts in … For example, some experts will express their opinions …

… (or uncooperative) behavior adopted by experts. This paper presents an expert weighting
methodology for consensus reaching processes in large-scale group decision making, that …

… Different experts in MCGDM may hold different decision … by most experts, a group consensus
reaching process has been … reaching process based on a combination of expert weight and …

… significantly leads to the unfairness of the decision-making result, this study also focuses
on designing a new method to manage the strategic experts’ weight manipulation in the 2-rank …

… : (i) a clustering process to weight experts’ sub-groups taking … , (ii) it uses hesitant fuzzy sets
to fuse expert’s sub-group … process that generates advice depending on the consensus level …

… introduce a weight updating process. Different from updating … We use the weighted averaging
operator to gather experts’ … For simplicity, we suppose that the weight of each expert to …

… describes the process which leads to the consensus and explicitly specifies the weights that
… under which the experts can be expected to reach agreement or for terminating the iterative …

… After gathering the preferences of experts, we need to compute the consensus level of the
… After obtaining the weights of subgroups, we calculate the degree of consensus among all …

… this enhanced consensus reaching procedure is that we only remove an expert's opinions …
) ′ by the mean of the other experts’ underlying weights over the membership degree and the …

… In this section, we present an illustrative example to show how the consensus level and
experts’ weights change in five successive rounds in the traditional LCRP and in the proposed …