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 with consistency control in group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Z Li, Z Zhang, W Yu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to complicated decision environment and limited knowledge of decision makers,
decision makers may provide incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations …

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 …

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 two-stage consensus method for large-scale multi-attribute group decision making with an application to earthquake shelter selection

Y Xu, X Wen, W Zhang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
In multi-attribute group decision making, it is preferable that a set of experts reach a high
degree of consensus amongst their opinions, especially for large-scale group decision …

Managing non-cooperative behaviors in consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making: An approach based on social network analysis

H Zhang, I Palomares, Y Dong, W Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
In consensus-based multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, it is
frequent that some experts exhibit non-cooperative behaviors owing to the different areas to …

Managing personalized individual semantics and consensus in linguistic distribution large-scale group decision making

J Xiao, X Wang, H Zhang - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
A linguistic distribution assessment is an effective approach to represent uncertain
preferences in large-scale group decision making (LSGDM). The same word often signifies …

A personalized feedback mechanism based on bounded confidence learning to support consensus reaching in group decision making

Q Zha, Y Dong, H Zhang, F Chiclana… - … on Systems, Man …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different feedback mechanisms have been reported in consensus reaching models to
provide advices for preference adjustment to assist decision makers to improve their …

Extended TODIM for multi-criteria group decision making based on unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

W Yu, Z Zhang, Q Zhong, L Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Uncertainty and impreciseness usually exist widely in decision making problems nowadays.
When eliciting assessments over alternatives, decision makers tend to have some hesitancy …

Consensus reaching in multiple attribute group decision making: a multi-stage optimization feedback mechanism with individual bounded confidences

Q Zha, Y Dong, F Chiclana… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing consensus models focus on improving the group consensus level, but ignore
whether a higher group consensus level means higher mutual acceptance of decision …