Multi-criteria social network group decision making (SNGDM) that allows decision makers
(DMs) to interact with each other has attracted increasing attention in the field of decision …

Natural language could be a common method for individuals to specific social relationships
or self-evaluation (ie, assured or unconfident). Hence, it is important to contemplate …

In traditional group decision making, the inconsistent experts are usually forced to make
compromises toward the group opinion to increase the group consensus level. However, the …

There exist a high demand to provide explainability to artificial intelligence systems, where
decision making models are included. This paper focuses on crowd decision making using …

In traditional social network analysis-based large-scale group decision making (LSGDM),
decision makers (DMs) often trust others based on social prestige/status without sufficient …

Human reliability analysis (HRA) is a systematic method to qualitatively and quantitatively
assess and analyze potential human errors for enhancing the safety and reliability of …

This paper proposes a novel expertise-based consensus reaching process (CRP) for
probability-hesitant fuzzy preference relations (PHFPRs). First, to identify each expert's …

This article proposes a framework for bilateral negotiation mechanism to deal the case the
concordant decision-makers (DMs) coalition cannot be constructed, which resolves the …

As a critical activity in occupational risk management, the occupational health and safety risk
assessment (OHSRA) aims at assessing occupational hazards in the workplace and …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is an effective method to convert customer requirements
(CRs) into design requirements (DRs) by constructing house of quality (HOQ). With the rapid …