A discrete consensus support model for multiple attribute group decision making

J Xu, Z Wu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
In multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), it is preferable that the set of experts
reach a high degree of consensus amongst their opinions before applying a selection …

Multiple attribute consensus rules with minimum adjustments to support consensus reaching

B Zhang, Y Dong, Y Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents two novel consensus rules with minimum adjustments for multiple
attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. One rule is to minimize the distance …

Managing consensus and weights in iterative multiple-attribute group decision making

Y Dong, J Xiao, H Zhang, T Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This study put forwards a novel consensus framework to manage the consensus and
weights (ie, weights of the experts and attributes) in iterative multiple-attribute group …

An automatic approach to reaching consensus in multiple attribute group decision making

Z Xu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, we consider the problem of consensus of multiple attribute group decision
making, and develop an automatic approach to reaching consensus among group opinions …

Consensus reaching model in the complex and dynamic MAGDM problem

Y Dong, H Zhang, E Herrera-Viedma - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
In classical multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), decision makers evaluate
predefined alternatives based on predefined attributes. In other words, the set of alternatives …

A consensus model for heterogeneous multi-attribute group decision making with several attribute sets

Y Gao, D Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
In most of the consensus models for multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM), the
decision makers are required to provide evaluation information in given expression domains …

Knowledge structure-based consensus-reaching method for large-scale multiattribute group decision-making

YW Du, Q Chen, YL Sun, CH Li - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Large-scale multiattribute group decision-making (LMGDM) requires a large number of
participants with different knowledge structures. This study proposed an LMGDM consensus …

The classification-based consensus in multi-attribute group decision-making

X Chen, W Xu, H Liang, Y Dong - Journal of the Operational …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In multi-attribute group decision-making problem (MAGDM), the existing consensus
reaching process (CRP) is to obtain a consensus ranking of alternatives. However, these …

Managing non-cooperative behaviors and ordinal consensus through a self-organized mechanism in multi-attribute group decision making

S Zhao, S Wu, Y Dong - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In consensus-based multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, decision
makers (DMs) may exhibit non-cooperative behaviors since they usually have different …

Managing non-cooperative behaviors in consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making: An approach based on social network analysis

H Zhang, I Palomares, Y Dong, W Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
In consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, it is
frequent that some experts exhibit non-cooperative behaviors owing to the different areas to …