An adaptive two-stage consensus reaching process based on heterogeneous judgments and social relations for large-scale group decision making.

• Main Authors: Zhou, Mi, Zhou, Ya-Jing, Liu, Xin-Bao, Wu, Jian, Fujita, Hamido, Herrera-Viedma, Enrique
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Inc. 2023
• Subjects: T58.6-58.62 Management information systems
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/105063/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.119280
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Large-scale group decision making is common in real-world scenarios, yet it involves two critical issues: (1) clustering individuals into subgroups according to specific criterion, and (2) facilitating any subsequent consensus reaching process. This paper presents a novel approach to address these c...