Recent studies on group decision-making (GDM) have highlighted the significance of the
reliability parameter, which is considered to be the second critical parameter, after weight, of …

In group decision-making (GDM) problems, experts need to communicate and adjust their
opinions in order to achieve consensus on the final decision-making output. Since experts …

Purpose The development of social networks enhances the interaction between people,
which brings new challenges to the research of group decision-making (GDM). This study …

Due to the urgent nature of emergency decision making, it is necessary to reach the
consensus requirement quickly. Ordinal consensus measure explores the relation between …

This paper introduces a relative utility function-based consensus method for three-way
group decision (TWGD) in a social network scenario where overlapping subgroups and non …

The shift to a new era of dealing with big data has driven continuous progress and
development in computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. This change …

In the process of large-scale group decision making (LSGDM), probabilistic linguistic term
set (PLTS) is an useful tool to represent the preferences of expert. There is a common case …

In the context of large group decision-making (LGDM), the opinions of individuals can
influence each other due to their trust relationships. So, trust relationships should be …

This article addresses the inconsistency problem in group decision making caused by
disparate opinions of multiple experts. To do so, a trust induced recommendation …

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 …