Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

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 …

Consistency and consensus are important issues for linguistic group decision making
(GDM), which have been extensively studied by scholars. Nevertheless, most of previous …

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 …

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 …

This article provides a brief tour through the main fuzzy and linguistic decision-making
trends, studies, methodologies, and models developed in the last 50 years. Fuzzy and …

With the rapid development of information, communication and techniques, social network
group decision making problems which allow information exchange and communication …

A two-fold personalized feedback mechanism is established for consensus reaching in
social network group decision-making (SN-GDM). It consists of two stages: 1) generating the …

Social network group decision making (SN-GDM) provides valuable support for obtaining
agreed decision results by effectively utilizing the connected social trust relationships among …

This study proposes a non-threshold consensus model that combines the minimum cost and
maximum consensus-increasing for multi-attribute large group decision-making (MALGDM) …