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 …

Consensus efficiency in group decision making: A comprehensive comparative study and its optimal design

H Zhang, Y Dong, F Chiclana, S Yu - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Consensus reaching processes (CRPs) aim to help decision-makers achieve agreement
regarding the solution to a common decision problem, and consequently play an …

[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] Large-scale group decision-making with non-cooperative behaviors and heterogeneous preferences: an application in financial inclusion

X Chao, G Kou, Y Peng, EH Viedma - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-cooperative behavior is a common situation in large-scale group decision-making
(LSGDM) problems. In addition, decision makers in LSGDM often use different preference …

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 …

[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 …

Bayesian best-worst method: A probabilistic group decision making model

M Mohammadi, J Rezaei - Omega, 2020 - Elsevier
The best-worst method (BWM) is a multi-criteria decision-making method which finds the
optimal weights of a set of criteria based on the preferences of only one decision-maker …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus reaching in social network group decision making: Research paradigms and challenges

Y Dong, Q Zha, H Zhang, G Kou, H Fujita… - Knowledge-Based …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Consensus building for the heterogeneous large-scale GDM with the individual concerns and satisfactions

H Zhang, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, societal and technological trends demand the management of large scale of
decision makers in group decision-making (GDM) contexts. In a large-scale GDM, decision …

The robust maximum expert consensus model with risk aversion

Y Ji, Y Ma - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
The maximum expert consensus model (MECM) is an effective model for achieving
consensus during the consensus reaching process (CRP) in group decision making (GDM) …