A consensus process for group decision making with probabilistic linguistic preference relations

Y Zhang, Z Xu, H Liao - Information sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
In group decision making (GDM) process, consensus is a fundamental problem. The
information provided by the experts in a GDM problem is usually expressed as preferences …

The solution for fuzzy large-scale group decision making problems combining internal preference information and external social network structures

T Wu, X Liu, F Liu - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
Owing to the advancement of information technique, people in large groups usually have
some social relationships with others and also have their own unique preferences. It is …

Consistency and trust relationship-driven social network group decision-making method with probabilistic linguistic information

F Jin, M Cao, J Liu, L Martínez, H Chen - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Unlike other linguistic modelings, probabilistic linguistic terms can clearly describe the
importance of different linguistic terms. With respect to group decision-making (GDM) …

Distribution linguistic fuzzy group decision making based on consistency and consensus analysis

F Jin, C Li, J Liu, L Zhou - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of distribution linguistic provides a new research idea for linguistic
information group decision-making (GDM) problems, which is more flexible and convenient …

Statistics-based method for large-scale group decision-making with incomplete linguistic distribution fuzzy information: Incorporating reliability and entropy

Y Zhou, S Wang, Y Chen, C Zheng - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Aiming at large-scale decision-makers (DMs) and the loss of decision sample information in
large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM), a novel statistical estimation method …

Managing consensus and self-confidence in multiplicative preference relations in group decision making

W Liu, H Zhang, X Chen, S Yu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Preference relations have been widely used in Group Decision Making (GDM) to represent
decision makers' preferences over alternatives. Recently, a new kind of preference relation …

A method for group decision making with multi-granularity linguistic assessment information

YP Jiang, ZP Fan, J Ma - Information Sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a method to solve the group decision making (GDM) problems with
multi-granularity linguistic assessment information. In the method, the multi-granularity …

Group decision making based on consistency and consensus analysis of dual multiplicative linguistic preference relations

F Meng, SM Chen, L Fu - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new group decision making (GDM) method based on the consistency
and the consensus analysis of dual multiplicative linguistic preference relations (DMLPRs) …

Consensus building for the heterogeneous large-scale GDM with the individual concerns and satisfactions

H Zhang, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Managing multi-granular probabilistic linguistic information in large-scale group decision making: A personalized individual semantics-based consensus model

Y Liu, Y Yang, L Sun, A Huang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The multi-granular probabilistic linguistic modeling allows decision makers to express
cognitive information using multiple linguistic term sets based on their preferences …