Adaptive consensus mechanism adopts differentiating consensus improvement strategies
according to different consensus levels, which is reasonable and efficient for reaching …

Consensus reaching process (CRP) is a key topic in the area of group decision making
(GDM). When the consensus level is not high enough, it becomes necessary to adjust the …

Consensus analysis is required to ensure the quality of decision results. It means that some
DMs' opinions must be adjusted to reach a consensus. As a result, it harms DMs' benefits …

Most practical decision-making problems commonly contain several alternatives evaluated
by more than one decision maker (DM) according to the built criteria system. It is known as …

Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is a powerful technology to deal with complex
decision problems. As decision makers (DMs) in LSGDM come from different fields with …

The consensus model with the minimum cost (or minimum adjustments or minimum
information loss) is a powerful decision tool for consensus building in the group decision …

In group decision making (GDM), to facilitate an acceptable consensus among the experts
from different fields, time and resources are paid for persuading experts to modify their …

In group decision making, consensus models are decision aid tools and help experts modify
their individual opinions to reach a closer agreement. Based on the concept of minimum …

Minimum-cost consensus (MCC) using the optimization-based consensus rule (OR) has
been developed and widely applied to various group decision-making (GDM) contexts …

This paper introduces a relative utility function-based consensus method for three-way
group decision (TWGD) in a social network scenario where overlapping subgroups and non …