In minimum cost consensus problems, to accomplish the group consensus, decision makers
accommodate their initial discrepant opinions based on the unit adjustment costs. During …

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is regarded as useful and efficient tool in
identifying and eliminating system failures and important means in safety and reliability …

It is quite beneficial for every company to have a strong decision-making technique at their
disposal. Experts and managers involved in decision-making strategies would particularly …

This article proposes a framework of consensus reaching process based on interval-valued
number with self-confidence involving two feedback mechanisms:(1) the ordinal feedback …

This study mainly focuses on developing a new flexible technique for interval-valued
intuitionistic fuzzy cosine similarity measures, which significantly analyzes the strength of the …

Abstract Type-2 fuzzy sets (T2FSs) have the advantage of representing higher-order
uncertainty, they have shown excellent performance in system modeling. However …

In group decision making (GDM), opinion dynamics is a useful tool to investigate consensus
formation. Notably, consensus convergence speed is of key importance to manage the …

Micro triadic structure is an important motif and serves the building block of complex
networks. In this paper, the authors define structure entropy for a social network and explain …

Group decision-making (GDM) problems often consist of many indeterminacy factors in
realistic situation. How to cope with consistency and consensus under uncertain …

With the development of Cloud Manufacturing, the scale of manufacturing platforms has
increased. Large-scale platforms increase the difficulty of manufacturing sharing, like time …