Group decision making (GDM) can be defined as an environment where there exist a set of
possible alternatives and a set of individuals (experts, judgements, etc.). Preference relation …

Large-scale group decision making, which involves dozens to hundreds of experts, is
attracting increasing attention and has become an important topic in the field of decision …

With the rapid development of society and continual progress of science and technology,
large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problems are very commonly encountered in …

Consensus reaching process (CRP) is very important for multi-criteria group decision
making (MCGDM). Recently, social network driven CRP methods have been deeply …

In many real-life large scale group decision making problems, it can be necessary and
convenient a consensus reaching process, which is an iterative procedure aimed at seeking …

This study proposes a non-threshold consensus model that combines the minimum cost and
maximum consensus-increasing for multi-attribute large group decision-making (MALGDM) …

Consensus reaching is a key issue in group decision-making, because conflicts of interest
among groups are common. Democratic consensus refers to achieve a soft consensus …

In a group decision-making (GDM) process, experts reach a consensus after discussion and
persuasion, which requires a moderator to spend time and resource to persuade experts to …

In many group decision-making situations, decision makers' preferences for alternatives are
expressed in preference relations (including fuzzy preference relations and multiplicative …

Consensus building is crucial in multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) because a
consensual decision outcome is beneficial for implementing the result. However, expert …