The society in the digital transformation era demands new decision schemes such as e-
democracy or based on social media. Such novel decision schemes require the participation …

The maximum expert consensus model (MECM) is an effective model for achieving
consensus during the consensus reaching process (CRP) in group decision making (GDM) …

Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) deals with complex decision-making
problems which involve a large number of decision makers (DMs). Such a complex scenario …

Group decision-making (GDM) in large-group social network environment (LGSNE) has
attracted considerable attention in the field of decision science. Social relationships exist …

Social network large-scale decision-making (SN-LSDM) has attracted much attention in the
field of decision science. Clustering and consensus building are two important processes for …

With social media and e-democracy development, decision-making environments and
problems have become increasingly complex. Traditional group decision-making, including …

Since the first report on the Circular Economy (CE) appeared in 2013, there has been an
explosion of interest in the subject by society and the business world. Thus, a base of …

As an extension of group decision-making in terms of scale and uncertainty, linguistic Z-
number large-scale decision-making (LZ-LSDM) is emerging as a prominent research topic …

Minimum-cost consensus (MCC) using the optimization-based consensus rule (OR) has
been developed and widely applied to various group decision-making (GDM) contexts …

Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) is a common decision-making activity in which
experts elicit their preferences through preference relations with consistencies based on …