This paper proposes a decentralized feedback mechanism to help large-scale decision
makers (DMs) reach consensus considering the limited compromise behavior of subgroups …

Consensus reaching process (CRP), as an essential part of group decision making (GDM),
can facilitate more effective consensus by taking human behaviors into account. Extending …

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is difficult for travelers to
choose suitable nature-based leisure travel destinations because many factors are related …

Some practical decision making problems need complex preferences. This study deals with
a multi-criteria group decision making problem with preference approval structures (PASs) …

The first step of implementing computing with words using a perceptual computer is to
establish an encoder to transform words into interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In this paper, a novel …

With the development of social media, social networks (SNs) have gradually become the link
of information exchange between people. The social trust network (STN), a typical SN, is …

In the problems that linguistic assessments are conducted by adopting multiple sources of
information representations, the management of unification of heterogeneous information …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations
(HFLPRs) are widely used where decision makers are permitted to provide qualitative …

Self-confidence actually affects group decision making (GDM) because it can somehow
reflect decision maker (DM)'s expertise and cognitive level. This paper proposes a new form …

Preference reliability analysis for preference relations reflected by the ordinal consistency
and the cardinal consistency was intensively studied. The ordinal consistency is a minimum …