Threshold-based value-driven method to support consensus reaching in multicriteria group sorting problems: a minimum adjustment perspective

Z Li, Z Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multicriteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems, there exist the situations that
alternatives need to be assigned to several predefined ordered categories rather than be …

Consensus-based TOPSIS-Sort-B for multi-criteria sorting in the context of group decision-making

Z Zhang, Z Li - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
Due to the limited knowledge, experience and ability of a single expert, an increasing
number of practical multi-criteria sorting (MCS) problems require the participation of multiple …

Managing consensus and weights in iterative multiple-attribute group decision making

Y Dong, J Xiao, H Zhang, T Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This study put forwards a novel consensus framework to manage the consensus and
weights (ie, weights of the experts and attributes) in iterative multiple-attribute group …

Consensus reaching with two-stage minimum adjustments in multi-attribute group decision making: A method based on preference-approval structure and prospect …

J Long, H Liang, L Gao, Z Guo, Y Dong - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel consensus reaching method for multi-attribute group decision
making (MAGDM) problems with preference-approval structures in prospect theory. In this …

Consensus reaching for ordinal classification-based group decision making with heterogeneous preference information

Z Li, Z Zhang, W Yu - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In group decision making (GDM), there may exist some problems that need to assign
alternatives to some predefined ordered categories, which are called ordinal classification …

Multiple attribute consensus rules with minimum adjustments to support consensus reaching

B Zhang, Y Dong, Y Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents two novel consensus rules with minimum adjustments for multiple
attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. One rule is to minimize the distance …

Consensus reaching process with multiobjective optimization for large-scale group decision making with cooperative game

P Wu, F Li, J Zhao, L Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is a common decision-making activity in which
experts elicit their preferences through preference relations with consistencies based on …

Group decision making with heterogeneous preference structures: An automatic mechanism to support consensus reaching

B Zhang, Y Dong, E Herrera-Viedma - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2019 - Springer
In real-world decision problems, decision makers usually express their opinions with
different preference structures. In order to deal with the heterogeneous preference …

A new social network driven consensus reaching process for multi-criteria group decision making with probabilistic linguistic information

WC Zou, SP Wan, JY Dong, L Martínez - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process (CRP) is very important for multi-criteria group decision
making (MCGDM). Recently, social network driven CRP methods have been deeply …

A social ties-based approach for group decision-making problems with incomplete additive preference relations

Q Liang, X Liao, J Liu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of Web 2.0 technology, a new paradigm has been developed that
allows many users to participate in decision-making processes within online social …