Consensus reaching is a key issue in group decision-making, because conflicts of interest
among groups are common. Democratic consensus refers to achieve a soft consensus …

Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is a common decision-making activity in which
experts elicit their preferences through preference relations with consistencies based on …

With the increasing complexity of socioeconomic environments, multicriteria group decision-
making (MCGDM) has attracted increasing attention from researchers. Experts' weight and …

The consensus reaching process (CRP) is often utilized to mitigate conflicts among decision
makers and help them reach an agreement. Almost all existing CRP models focused on …

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

Nowadays, societal and technological trends demand the management of large scale of
decision makers in group decision-making (GDM) contexts. In a large-scale GDM, decision …

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 …

In the large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) problems, it is common that some
decision makers might refuse to modify their preferences to achieve a consensus or even …

This study proposes a non-threshold consensus model that combines the minimum cost and
maximum consensus-increasing for multi-attribute large group decision-making (MALGDM) …

In large-scale group decision making (GDM), noncooperative behavior in the consensus
reaching process (CRP) is not unusual. For example, some individuals might form a small …