Consistency and consensus are important issues for linguistic group decision making
(GDM), which have been extensively studied by scholars. Nevertheless, most of previous …

In group decision making problems, there exist the situations that decision makers may use
unbalanced linguistic term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed to …

The extensions of ordinary fuzzy sets such as intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Pythagorean fuzzy
sets, and neutrosophic sets, whose membership functions are based on three dimensions …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role in national
production, and provide more than 60% of the employment opportunities for the society. The …

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 …

Due to complicated decision environment and limited knowledge of decision makers,
decision makers may provide incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations …

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 …

The increasing complexity of real-world problems drives the experts to consider complex
linguistic expressions instead of single linguistic terms to represent their linguistic opinions …

Due to the uncertainty of decision environment and differences of decision makers' culture
and knowledge background, multi-granular HFLTSs are usually elicited by decision makers …

Consensus in group decision making requires discussion and deliberation between the
group members with the aim to reach a decision that reflects the opinions of every group …