As the proportion of natural gas in China's energy consumption increases, it has become an
important issue to assess the risk of liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation routes. This …

Large scale group decision making (LSGDM) has become a hot research topic in the field of
decision science. Reaching a consensus in LSGDM is more difficult and complex than the …

Real-world decision-making problems are usually defined under uncertain contexts due to
their complexity. In such situations, the psychological behavior of decision makers is often …

As the decision environment becomes increasingly complicated, the demand for large-scale
group decision making (LSGDM) is increasing. Because of the differences in decision …

Consistency measurement is a significant issue in linguistic decision making when
preferences are expressed via linguistic preference relations. However, the extant literatures …

In consensus-based social network group decision-making (SN-GDM) problems, the low
degree of harmony caused by opinion discrepancies and weak trust relationships may lead …

To manage consensus in opinion dynamics models (ODMs), removing bias from agents'
interactions and considering their willingness are critical. It can be accomplished by …

Developing an evaluation matrix and selecting the optimal alternative are two crucial stages
in any decision-making process. The development of an evaluation matrix involves two key …

Group decision making (GDM) is widely used in a complex and uncertain real-world to help
multiple experts collectively evaluate and select appropriate alternatives. Consensus …

In group decision making (GDM), there are seldom ideal scenarios that all the preference
information given by all individuals reach a highly level of agreement. Conflicts are present …