In the healthcare domain, a transformative shift is envisioned towards Healthcare 5.0. It
expands the operational boundaries of Healthcare 4.0 and leverages patient-centric digital …

Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

The generation of collective preference assessments occupies a critical position in deriving
accurate and reliable alternative rankings in the context of large-scale group decision …

In group decision making problems, there exist the situations that decision makers may use
unbalanced linguistic term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed to …

Peer enterprises face similar market environment and development prospects. For the
purpose of economic rationality and avoiding risks, enterprises imitate and learn from peer …

The process of opinion formation and evolution is an important part of the study of opinion
dynamics. However, the existing opinion dynamics ignore the relationship between opinion …

This article provides a brief tour through the main fuzzy and linguistic decision-making
trends, studies, methodologies, and models developed in the last 50 years. Fuzzy and …

With the rapid development of information, communication and techniques, social network
group decision making problems which allow information exchange and communication …

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 social network group decision making (SNGDM), the consensus reaching process (CRP)
is used to help decision makers with social relationships reach consensus. Many CRP …