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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Soft consensus cost models for group decision making and economic interpretations

H Zhang, G Kou, Y Peng - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In a group decision-making (GDM) process, experts reach a consensus after discussion and
persuasion, which requires a moderator to spend time and resource to persuade experts to …

Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model

J Rezaei - Omega, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Best Worst Method (BWM) is a multi-criteria decision-making method that uses
two vectors of pairwise comparisons to determine the weights of criteria. First, the best (eg …

A minimum adjustment cost feedback mechanism based consensus model for group decision making under social network with distributed linguistic trust

J Wu, L Dai, F Chiclana, H Fujita, E Herrera-Viedma - Information Fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
A theoretical feedback mechanism framework to model consensus in social network group
decision making (SN-GDM) is proposed with following two main components:(1) 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 …

A group decision making model for integrating heterogeneous information

G Li, G Kou, Y Peng - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a group decision-making (GDM) method for integrating heterogeneous
information. To avoid information loss, instead of transforming heterogeneous information …

Managing consistency and consensus in group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Z Wu, J Xu - Omega, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of hesitant information in pairwise comparisons enriches the flexibility of qualitative
decision making and allows for hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation (HFLPR). This …

A self-management mechanism for noncooperative behaviors in large-scale group consensus reaching processes

Y Dong, S Zhao, H Zhang, F Chiclana… - … on Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In large-scale group decision making (GDM), noncooperative behavior in the consensus
reaching process (CRP) is not unusual. For example, some individuals might form a small …