Distributed linguistic representations are powerful tools for modelling the uncertainty and
complexity of preference information in linguistic decision making. To provide a …

The society in the digital transformation era demands new decision schemes such as e-
democracy or based on social media. Such novel decision schemes require the participation …

The generation of collective preference assessments occupies a critical position in deriving
accurate and reliable alternative rankings in the context of large-scale group decision …

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

In group decision making problems, there exist the situations that decision makers may use
unbalanced linguistic term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed to …

As the number of people involved in a decision-making problem increases, the complexity of
the group decision-making (GDM) process increases accordingly. The size of participants …

Leveraging social network trust relationships among experts to reach consensus has
become a popular topic in linguistic group decision making (GDM). However, in linguistic …

With the rapid development of information, communication and techniques, social network
group decision making problems which allow information exchange and communication …

Two-sided matching decision making (TSMDM) problems exist widely in human being's
daily life. For practical TSMDM problems, matching objects with different culture and …

This paper focuses on consensus reaching process (CRP) under social network in which the
trust relationship expressed by linguistic information. A new feedback mechanism in social …