Supporting the process of consensus building has become a major research field in group
decision making (GDM). The purpose of this paper is to present a consistency consensus …

This article proposes a bidirectional feedback mechanism for consensus in group decision
making (GDM) driven by the behavior of decision makers (DMs), which is discriminated with …

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

A key issue in social network group decision making (SNGDM) is to determine the weights
(ie, social influences) of individuals. Notably, in some SNGDM scenarios, the social …

Large-scale group decision-making problems based on social network analysis and
minimum cost consensus models (MCCMs) have recently attracted considerable attention …

With the rapid growth of Web 2.0 technology, a new paradigm has been developed that
allows many users to participate in decision-making processes within online social …

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 …

The consensus model with the minimum cost (or minimum adjustments or minimum
information loss) is a powerful decision tool for consensus building in the group decision …

With the development of intelligent decision-making, one kind of decision modes involves a
large number of decision-makers (DMs), which is called large scale group decision making …

Different feedback mechanisms have been reported in consensus reaching models to
provide advices for preference adjustment to assist decision makers to improve their …