The maximum expert consensus model (MECM) is an effective model for achieving
consensus during the consensus reaching process (CRP) in group decision making (GDM) …

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 …

Fairness has attracted extensive concern in manufacturing, service sector, and government
agencies. In group decision making (GDM), decision makers (DMs) may destroy the …

The COVID-19 pandemic-as a massive disruption-has significantly increased the need for
medical services putting an unprecedented strain on health systems. This study presents a …

The minimum cost consensus model (MCCM) aims at reaching group consensus for either
conflict or polarized opinions evaluated in group decision making. Decision makers (DMs) …

Reaching consensus in group decision-making (GDM) is usually achieved by minimizing
opinion deviation (distance) or maximizing the utility of the group in traditional mathematical …

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

Consensus-reaching process (CRP) plays an important role in the group decision-making
(GDM) process. And CRP is a game between the decision makers (DMs) and the moderator …

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 processes, decision makers may have different risk preference
types, which usually make them take various responses to the same problem. In minimum …