Consistency and consensus are important issues for linguistic group decision making
(GDM), which have been extensively studied by scholars. Nevertheless, most of previous …

This paper proposes a consensus-trust driven framework of bidirectional interaction for
social network large-group decision making. Firstly, the concepts of interaction consensus …

Due to the limited knowledge, experience and ability of a single expert, an increasing
number of practical multi-criteria sorting (MCS) problems require the participation of multiple …

Due to complicated decision environment and limited knowledge of decision makers,
decision makers may provide incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations …

A bargaining game is used to develop feedback mechanism for dynamic social networks
group decision making (SN-GDM). The dynamic trust relationships between experts are …

Multi-criteria social network group decision making (SNGDM) that allows decision makers
(DMs) to interact with each other has attracted increasing attention in the field of decision …

Social network group decision making (SN-GDM) provides valuable support for obtaining
agreed decision results by effectively utilizing the connected social trust relationships among …

In multicriteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems, there exist the situations that
alternatives need to be assigned to several predefined ordered categories rather than be …

Abstract In Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), alternatives are evaluated by
considering different criteria. In MCDM, there is a requirement to integrate the objective and …

The proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (PHFLTS) has been effectively employed
in analyzing the group's hesitancy in linguistic group decision making (LGDM). The …