The main challenges in large scale group decision making (LSGDM) problem are how to
tackle with the great number of participants and how to achieve a common solution accepted …

The decision making environment has been dramatically affected by rapid developments in
society and the economy. Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) based on social …

Recently, large-scale group decision-making in the social network context has become an
attractive research hotspot in decision science. The focus of large-scale group decision …

Consensus reaching is an iterative and dynamic process that supports group decision-
making models by guiding decision-makers towards modifying their opinions through a …

Nowadays, online social networks, such as “Facebook” and “WeChat,” facilitate the
expression, diffusion, and interactions of individuals' opinions regarding various issues. In …

Different feedback mechanisms have been developed in large-scale group decision-making
(GDM) to provide the decision-makers with advices for preference adjustment with the aim of …

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 …

Opinion dynamics (OD) models, which simulate individuals' opinion evolution process on
social network to analyze the final state of opinion distribution in a group, usually differ from …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problems have drawn general attention from
scholars. The distribution linguistic preference relation (DLPR) is a flexible and practical tool …

The development of big data and social media has driven large-scale group decision
making (LSGDM) to merge with social networks and focus on individual behavioral factors …