Consensus efficiency in group decision making: A comprehensive comparative study and its optimal design

H Zhang, Y Dong, F Chiclana, S Yu - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching processes (CRPs) aim to help decision-makers achieve agreement
regarding the solution to a common decision problem, and consequently play an …

A review of soft consensus models in a fuzzy environment

E Herrera-Viedma, FJ Cabrerizo, J Kacprzyk… - Information …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we
need to measure the closeness among experts' opinions in order to obtain a consensus …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus reaching process in large-scale group decision making based on bounded confidence and social network

Y Li, G Kou, G Li, Y Peng - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process (CRP) is a dynamic and interactive method used to reach a
group decision. Now that social networks and mobile internet are prominent features in daily …

Consensus-based TOPSIS-Sort-B for multi-criteria sorting in the context of group decision-making

Z Zhang, Z Li - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Personalized individual semantics-based consistency control and consensus reaching in linguistic group decision making

Z Zhang, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consistency and consensus are important issues for linguistic group decision making
(GDM), which have been extensively studied by scholars. Nevertheless, most of previous …

Heterogeneous large-scale group decision making using fuzzy cluster analysis and its application to emergency response plan selection

G Li, G Kou, Y Peng - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A three-way consensus model with regret theory under the framework of probabilistic linguistic term sets

J Zhu, X Ma, G Kou, E Herrera-Viedma, J Zhan - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
For multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problems, this paper proposes a three-
way consensus model based on regret theory (RT) under the framework of probabilistic …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus reaching in social network group decision making: Research paradigms and challenges

Y Dong, Q Zha, H Zhang, G Kou, H Fujita… - Knowledge-Based …, 2018 - Elsevier
In social network group decision making (SNGDM), the consensus reaching process (CRP)
is used to help decision makers with social relationships reach consensus. Many CRP …

Consensus reaching with consistency control in group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Z Li, Z Zhang, W Yu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to complicated decision environment and limited knowledge of decision makers,
decision makers may provide incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations …

A consensus model for large-scale group decision making with hesitant fuzzy information and changeable clusters

Z Wu, J Xu - Information Fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
In the large-scale group decision making (LGDM) consensus process, it is usually assumed
that the obtained clusters do not change. However, as the individual preferences change as …