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 …

Granular computing, as a new and rapidly growing paradigm of information processing, has
attracted many researchers and practitioners. Granular computing is an umbrella term to …

Nowadays, with the increasing complexity of decision-making environment, more and more
large-scale group decision making (LGDM) problems are faced. Due to the existence of …

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 …

A promising research area in the field of group decision making (GDM) is the study of
interpersonal influence and its impact on the evolution of experts' opinions. In conventional …

In group decision making, the interaction behaviors between the moderator and decision
makers play a critical role in a consensus process. In this study, based on the essential …

This paper proposes a group decision-making (GDM) method for integrating heterogeneous
information. To avoid information loss, instead of transforming heterogeneous information …

A theoretical framework to consensus building within a networked social group is put
forward. This article investigates a trust based estimation and aggregation methods as part …

In this article, a novel framework to prevent manipulation behavior in consensus reaching
process under social network group decision making is proposed, which is based on a …

The use of incomplete probabilistic linguistic term sets (InPLTSs) can enrich the flexibility of
qualitative decision-making information expression, especially in decision-making situations …