Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

Consensus reaching process is a very powerful decision tool to eliminate the preference
conflict in group decision making. In general, the consensus is achieved by the decision …

On-line platforms foster the communication capabilities of the Internet to develop large-scale
influence networks in which the quality of the interactions can be evaluated based on trust …

Abstract The arrival of Big Data era has brought large, complex, and growing data generated
from numerous sources. Due to the power in felicitous decision making based on diverse …

Abstract Dempster–Shafer (D–S) evidence theory is useful for handling uncertainty
problems in multisensor data fusion. However, the question of how to handle highly …

Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) has become one of the most frequently applied
decision making methodologies in various fields. However, uncertainty is inevitably involved …

With the increase of technological and societal demands, more and more decision makers
are involved in the process of group decision making, which is called large-scale group …

A two-fold personalized feedback mechanism is established for consensus reaching in
social network group decision-making (SN-GDM). It consists of two stages: 1) generating the …

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) …

This article investigates a two-stage consensus feedback mechanism that considers different
power structures in large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) environments. A Louvain …