An overview on feedback mechanisms with minimum adjustment or cost in consensus reaching in group decision making: Research paradigms and challenges

H Zhang, S Zhao, G Kou, CC Li, Y Dong, F Herrera - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] From conventional group decision making to large-scale group decision making: What are the challenges and how to meet them in big data era? A state-of …

M Tang, H Liao - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The arrival of Big Data era has brought large, complex, and growing data generated
from numerous sources. Due to the power in felicitous decision making based on diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus reaching process in large-scale group decision making based on bounded confidence and social network

Y Li, G Kou, G Li, Y Peng - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching process (CRP) is a dynamic and interactive method used to reach a
group decision. Now that social networks and mobile internet are prominent features in daily …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of feature selection methods for text classification with small datasets using multiple criteria decision-making methods

G Kou, P Yang, Y Peng, F Xiao, Y Chen… - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
The evaluation of feature selection methods for text classification with small sample datasets
must consider classification performance, stability, and efficiency. It is, thus, a multiple …

Heterogeneous large-scale group decision making using fuzzy cluster analysis and its application to emergency response plan selection

G Li, G Kou, Y Peng - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the number of people involved in a decision-making problem increases, the complexity of
the group decision-making (GDM) process increases accordingly. The size of participants …

Revisiting fuzzy and linguistic decision making: Scenarios and challenges for making wiser decisions in a better way

E Herrera-Viedma, I Palomares, CC Li… - … on Systems, Man …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Soft consensus cost models for group decision making and economic interpretations

H Zhang, G Kou, Y Peng - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In a group decision-making (GDM) process, experts reach a consensus after discussion and
persuasion, which requires a moderator to spend time and resource to persuade experts to …

Evaluating solutions to overcome humanitarian supply chain management barriers: A hybrid fuzzy SWARA–Fuzzy WASPAS approach

S Agarwal, R Kant, R Shankar - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study intends to explore humanitarian supply chain management barriers (HSCMBs)
and evaluate solutions for overcoming these barriers to improve humanitarian supply chain …

A concentration ratio for nonlinear best worst method

J Rezaei - International Journal of Information Technology & …, 2020 - World Scientific
Best Worst Method (BWM) is a multi-criteria decision-making method that is based on a
structured pairwise comparison system. It uses two pairwise comparison vectors (best-to …

Aggregation of the nearest consistency matrices with the acceptable consensus in AHP-GDM

C Lin, G Kou, Y Peng, FE Alsaadi - Annals of Operations Research, 2022 - Springer
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is widely used in group decision making (GDM). There are
two traditional aggregation methods for the collective preference in AHP-GDM: aggregation …