Building a consensus for the best-worst method in group decision-making with an optimal allocation of information granularity

J Qin, X Ma, Y Liang - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In a multiple-criteria group decision-making process, it may be unrealistic to assume that all
experts are specialized in all aspects of the entire problem and can reach full agreement. To …

A Granular Computing-Driven Best–Worst Method for Supporting Group Decision Making

J Qin, X Ma, W Pedrycz - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In group decision making (GDM), there are seldom ideal scenarios that all the preference
information given by all individuals reach a highly level of agreement. Conflicts are present …

Consensus model driven by interpretable rules in large-scale group decision making with optimal allocation of information granularity

B Zhang, Y Dong, W Pedrycz - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In group decision making (GDM), consensus level is regarded as a critical criterion to
measure the effectiveness and availability of the final group decision solution. Consensus …

A clustering and fusion method for large group decision making with double information and heterogeneous experts

X Zhong, X Xu, X Chen - Soft Computing, 2022 - Springer
In real large group decision-making (LGDM) problems, there usually exist double
information consisting of decision basis information and preference relation information, and …

Group consensus reaching based on a combination of expert weight and expert reliability

M Xue, C Fu, SL Yang - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) as a key module in a group decision support
system has attracted much attention. Different experts in MCGDM may hold different …

An improved consensus-based group decision making model with heterogeneous information

F Zhang, J Ignatius, Y Zhao, CP Lim, M Ghasemi… - Applied Soft …, 2015 - Elsevier
In group decision making (GDM) problems, it is natural for decision makers (DMs) to provide
different preferences and evaluations owing to varying domain knowledge and cultural …

A fuzzy best-worst multi-criteria group decision-making method

S Guo, Z Qi - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposed a novel fuzzy best-worst multi-criteria group decision-making method
to solve the group decision-making (GDM) problem with multi-granular linguistic approach …

A hierarchical consensus reaching process for group decision making with noncooperative behaviors

M Tang, H Liao, X Mi, B Lev, W Pedrycz - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of technological and societal paradigms, we witness a trend where a
large number of experts participate in decision-making processes, and large-scale group …

A biobjective optimization model for expert opinions aggregation and its application in group decision making

C Ji, X Lu, W Zhang - IEEE Systems Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Expert opinions aggregation is a generic part of the group decision making (GDM) problem.
The challenge of expert opinions aggregation is to reduce the subjectivity in the process as …

Optimal group selection model for large-scale group decision making

P Wu, Q Wu, L Zhou, H Chen - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Research on large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) has generally focused on
clustering and reaching a consensus. Often, participants (or decision makers) are unwilling …