Consensus reaching processes (CRPs) aim to help decision-makers achieve agreement regarding the solution to a common decision problem, and consequently play an …
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 …
Q Pang, H Wang, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
When expressing preferences in qualitative setting, several possible linguistic terms with different weights (represented by probabilities) may be considered at the same time. The …
In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we need to measure the closeness among experts' opinions in order to obtain a consensus …
Information granules, as encountered in natural language, are implicit in nature. To make them fully operational so they can be effectively used to analyze and design intelligent …
Y Zhang, X Chen, L Gao, Y Dong… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
The trust degrees among individuals play an important role in social network group decision making (SNGDM). They are assumed to be unchanged with the time in most of extant …
The consensus reaching process (CRP) is a dynamic and iterative process for improving the consensus level among experts in group decision making. A large number of non …
The reciprocal preference relation (RPR) is a powerful tool to represent decision makers' preferences in decision making problems. In recent years, various types of RPRs have been …