In group decision making, the interaction behaviors between the moderator and decision
makers play a critical role in a consensus process. In this study, based on the essential …

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 …

For many group decision-making (GDM) issues, such as water-resource allocation, urban
resettlement, and traffic-route planning, the benefits of the decision makers (DMs) are …

In group decision making, it is sensible to achive minimum consensus cost (MCC) because
the consensus reaching process resources are often limited. In this endeavour, though …

Since the hard consensus is difficult and costly to achieve in group decision making (GDM),
it is reasonable and necessary for decision makers (DMs) to reach a soft consensus within a …

The unit costs of up-and down-adjustments are not equal in some real-life minimum cost
consensus (MCC) problems, such as when each individual has two different cost coefficients …

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

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 …

In some important group decision making, a moderator representing the collective interest,
who has predetermined, and possesses an effective leadership and strong interpersonal …

With the rapid development of novel technological paradigms such as e-democracy, e-
government, and collective intelligence, large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) has …