A theoretical framework to deal with incomplete preference information in social network
group decision making (SN-GDM) is put forward. Firstly, the concept of the type-2 linguistic …

The advancement of science and technology and the development of network environments
have made social network multi-criteria group decision making (SN-MCGDM) an interesting …

A novel social network based group decision making (SN-GDM) model with experts' weights
not provided beforehand and with the following four tuple information: trust; distrust; …

A theoretical feedback mechanism framework to model consensus in social network group
decision making (SN-GDM) is proposed with following two main components:(1) the …

This study focuses on consensus-reaching in social network group decision-making. Using
Archimedean t-norms and t-conorms as the basis, this study introduces a family of interval …

A theoretical framework to consensus building within a networked social group is put
forward. This article investigates a trust based estimation and aggregation methods as part …

This paper investigates a consensus reaching process (CRP) considering dynamic trust in
large-scale group decision making (LSGDM). In the traditional trust-based consensus …

Unlike other linguistic modelings, probabilistic linguistic terms can clearly describe the
importance of different linguistic terms. With respect to group decision-making (GDM) …

Group decision making (GDM) problems require consensus reaching processes; however,
these can be time consuming and costly. As experts change their evaluations after …

With the development of social media, social networks (SNs) have gradually become the link
of information exchange between people. The social trust network (STN), a typical SN, is …