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

The proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (PHFLTS) has been effectively employed
in analyzing the group's hesitancy in linguistic group decision making (LGDM). The …

In parallel with the development of information and network technology, large amounts of
data are being generated by the Internet, and data-driven methodologies are now often …

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

Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is very common in real world, and especially
how to reach a relatively consensus status in a social network is a hot topic. In this paper, we …

Online education addresses the limitations of traditional classrooms in terms of time and
location. Moreover, online learning platforms provide learners with one-stop self-learning …

This paper investigates a global feedback consensus model which determines the
importance of decision makers by combining explicit and implicit Power. Explicit power is …

The fuzzy preference relation with self-confidence (FPR-SC), whose elements are
composed of the degree to which an alternative is preferred to another and the self …

Nowadays, large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) has become a hot topic and
brought new challenges for the decision makers. This article proposes a framework of joint …

Based on the notion that cardinal consensus and ordinal consensus are of equal
importance, a novel consensus reaching model for multi-attribute large group decision …