Journal
INFORMATION FUSION
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 80-93Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2020.10.010
Keywords
Distributed linguistic trust; Consensus; Feedback mechanism; Trust propagation; Self-esteem degree; Group decision making
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71971135, 71571166]
- Industrial and Informationalization Ministry of China for Cruise Program [2018473]
- Key Project of National Social and Scientific Fund Program [18ZDA052]
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This paper investigates the consensus reaching process under social networks with trust relationship expressed by linguistic information. A new feedback mechanism is proposed to help groups make personalized decisions and reach higher levels of consensus. The approach involves studying distributed linguistic trust propagation among experts and developing a maximum self-esteem degree based feedback mechanism to assist inconsistent experts in changing their opinions.
This paper focuses on consensus reaching process (CRP) under social network in which the trust relationship expressed by linguistic information. A new feedback mechanism in social network group decision making (SN-GDM) is proposed, which mainly consists of the following two aspects: (1) The propagation of distributed linguistic trust is investigated to study trust relation among experts; (2) A maximum self-esteem degree based feedback mechanism is developed to produce personalized advice for reaching higher group consensus. To do so, a novel linguistic trust propagation method is proposed to obtain the complete trust relationship among group. The self-esteem degree is used to define the extent that an individual makes concessions. Then, a maximum self-esteem degree based optimal feedback mechanism is built to produce personalized advice to help inconsistent experts make change of their opinion. Its novelty lies in the establishment of an optimization model with the nonlinear group self-esteem degree function as the objective function while group consensus threshold as the restrictions. Therefore, the inconsistent experts will reach a group consensus with the minimum loss of self-esteem degree, and then, it achieves the optimal balance between individual self-esteem and group consensus. Finally, a ranking process is applied to derive the appropriate consensus solution.
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