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 …

This paper focuses on an emergent debate about the microfoundations of organizational
social networks. We consider three theoretical positions: an individual agency perspective …

Consensus reaching processes in group decision making attempt to reach a mutual
agreement among a group of decision makers before making a common decision. Different …

Nowadays, society demands group decision making (GDM) problems that require the
participation of a large number of experts, so-called large scale group decision making (LS …

Consensus reaching processes (CRPs) in group decision making (GDM) attempt to reach a
mutual agreement among a group of decision makers before making a common decision …

Studying animal behavior as collective phenomena is a powerful tool for understanding
social processes, including group coordination and decision-making. However, linking …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) under uncertainty modelled by comparative
linguistic expressions based on a hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) has recently …

This paper surveys the literature over the last decades in the field of self-organizing
multiagent systems. Self-organization has been extensively studied and applied in …

A ubiquitous type of collective behavior and decision-making is the coordinated motion of
bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds. Collective decisions to move in the same …

Hierarchical organization is widespread in the societies of humans and other animals, both
in social structure and in decision-making contexts. In the case of collective motion, the …