An overview on feedback mechanisms with minimum adjustment or cost in consensus reaching in group decision making: Research paradigms and challenges

H Zhang, S Zhao, G Kou, CC Li, Y Dong, F Herrera - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process is a very powerful decision tool to eliminate the preference
conflict in group decision making. In general, the consensus is achieved by the decision …

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 …

Consensus reaching for group decision making with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic information: A bounded confidence and minimum adjustment-based …

Z Zhang, Z Li, Y Gao - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Expertise-based bid evaluation for construction-contractor selection with generalized comparative linguistic ELECTRE III

ZS Chen, X Zhang, RM Rodríguez, W Pedrycz… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The process of bid evaluation is subject to indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty in
terms of their alternative-criterion decision appraisals. To address this issue, this paper …

[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 …

Managing multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information in multiattribute large-scale group decision making: A linguistic distribution-based approach

Z Zhang, W Yu, L Martínez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of technological and societal demands, more and more decision makers
are involved in the process of group decision making, which is called large-scale group …

The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)‐based strategic mapping of green nuclear energy investments with spherical fuzzy group decision‐making approach

G Yuan, F Xie, H Dinçer… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study is to define strategies to increase green nuclear energy investments.
Within this context, a model is suggested that includes two different stages. Firstly, the …

Consensus building for the heterogeneous large-scale GDM with the individual concerns and satisfactions

H Zhang, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, societal and technological trends demand the management of large scale of
decision makers in group decision-making (GDM) contexts. In a large-scale GDM, decision …

Managing consensus based on leadership in opinion dynamics

Y Dong, Z Ding, L Martínez, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Opinion dynamics investigates the fusion process of the opinion formation in a group of
agents, and is a powerful tool for supporting the management of public opinions. However …

Consensus model for multi-criteria large-group emergency decision making considering non-cooperative behaviors and minority opinions

X Xu, Z Du, X Chen - Decision Support Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Emergency situations often demand high-quality decision-making results because a wrong
decision may cause incalculable losses. Therefore, in such cases, the views of all decision …