Consensus reaching is an iterative and dynamic process that supports group decision-
making models by guiding decision-makers towards modifying their opinions through a …

The main challenges in large scale group decision making (LSGDM) problem are how to
tackle with the great number of participants and how to achieve a common solution accepted …

Opinion dynamics (OD) models, which simulate individuals' opinion evolution process on
social network to analyze the final state of opinion distribution in a group, usually differ from …

Hybrid opinion dynamics which involves two types of individuals (ie, leaders and followers)
communicate in real time and share opinions and knowledge have been widely used in …

Consensus in group decision making requires discussion and deliberation between the
group members with the aim to reach a decision that reflects the opinions of every group …

Nowadays, online social networks, such as “Facebook” and “WeChat,” facilitate the
expression, diffusion, and interactions of individuals' opinions regarding various issues. In …

Opinion dynamics is a fusion process of individual opinions, in which a group of interacting
agents continuously fuse their opinions on the same issue based on established fusion rules …

Opinion dynamics investigates the fusion process of the opinion formation in a group of
agents, and is a powerful tool for supporting the management of public opinions. However …

Opinion dynamics focuses on the opinion evolution in a social community. Recently, some
models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence were proposed by …

Although the idea of introducing heterogeneous confidence levels has been around for
some time, its implications for the influence of the confidence thresholds on the consensus …