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 …

Interest in group decision-making (GDM) has been increasing prominently over the last
decade. Access to global databases, sophisticated sensors which can obtain multiple inputs …

Consensus reaching is an iterative and dynamic process that supports group decision-
making models by guiding decision-makers towards modifying their opinions through a …

To group decision-making (GDM) under social network, the interactions are no longer
limited to pairwise but can take higher-order interaction, which can affect the consensus …

Due to the rapid development of internet technology, multi-attribute large-scale group
decision making (MALSGDM) becomes a research hotspot of multi-attribute group decision …

Energy performance contracting (EPC) mechanism is a good choice for conducting energy-
saving renovation projects of public buildings. Furthermore, risk analysis is critical to …

This paper introduces a relative utility function-based consensus method for three-way
group decision (TWGD) in a social network scenario where overlapping subgroups and non …

Group sorting problems have attracted extensive attention, which have been successfully
applied to support management decisions. However, these existing studies rarely involve …

Today, as a result of the pandemic we are going through due to the infectious disease
COVID-19, many small, medium and large companies worldwide have had difficulties to stay …

Group decision-making and consensus modeling have always been important research
topics. With the widespread use of the Internet, group decisions can be made online, in …