Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is a powerful technology to deal with complex
decision problems. As decision makers (DMs) in LSGDM come from different fields with …

Nowadays, large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) has become a hot topic and
brought new challenges for the decision makers. This article proposes a framework of joint …

Since the hard consensus is difficult and costly to achieve in group decision making (GDM),
it is reasonable and necessary for decision makers (DMs) to reach a soft consensus within a …

To date, a large number of consensus reaching processes (CRPs) have been reported in
group decision making (GDM). Trust relationships should be an essential element in …

In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we
need to measure the closeness among experts' opinions in order to obtain a consensus …

In the bounded confidence model, it is widely known that individuals rely on the opinions of
their close friends or people with similar interests. Meanwhile, the decision maker always …

For any group or organization to function effectively, it must be able to make decisions well.
Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making is the first book to offer groups (and group facilitators) …

Based on the notion that cardinal consensus and ordinal consensus are of equal
importance, a novel consensus reaching model for multi-attribute large group decision …

Consensus is a pivotal concept in group decision making. Many times, such a consensus is
achieved by the experts shifting their opinion towards a point of mutual consent. Such a shift …

Nowadays we are living the apogee of the Internet based technologies and consequently
web 2.0 communities, where a large number of users interact in real time and share …