Social network large-scale decision making (SNLSDM) is becoming a cutting-edge topic in the field of decision science as a widespread decision-making scenario in modern society. The decision information usually includes social relationships among decision makers (DMs) and individual opinions. This makes clustering and consensus modeling, which are two important processes for solving SNLSDM problems, significantly complex and requires the integration of multiple factors. This chapter designs a decision support method that consists of a constrained community detection (CCD) method and a multi-stage multi-cost consensus (MSMulCC) model. The CCD method takes the similarities among individual opinions as the mandatory constraint to guide the classification of DMs based on social relationships. The consensus reaching process (CRP) is an effective tool for reducing differences of opinion. We hold that the DM with high compatibility but low consensus can reduce the adjustment amount by actively losing some compatibility. In this way, three types of consensus costs are generated, including individual adjustment cost, group adjustment cost, and compatibility loss cost. In this chapter, an MSMulCC model is developed and the impact of different types of consensus costs on CRP. Finally, the feasibility and characteristics of the proposal are revealed through a comparative analysis.

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Multi-stage Multi-cost Consensus Modeling in SNLSDM

  • Sumin Yu,
  • Zhijiao Du,
  • Xuanhua Xu,
  • Jing Wang

摘要

Social network large-scale decision making (SNLSDM) is becoming a cutting-edge topic in the field of decision science as a widespread decision-making scenario in modern society. The decision information usually includes social relationships among decision makers (DMs) and individual opinions. This makes clustering and consensus modeling, which are two important processes for solving SNLSDM problems, significantly complex and requires the integration of multiple factors. This chapter designs a decision support method that consists of a constrained community detection (CCD) method and a multi-stage multi-cost consensus (MSMulCC) model. The CCD method takes the similarities among individual opinions as the mandatory constraint to guide the classification of DMs based on social relationships. The consensus reaching process (CRP) is an effective tool for reducing differences of opinion. We hold that the DM with high compatibility but low consensus can reduce the adjustment amount by actively losing some compatibility. In this way, three types of consensus costs are generated, including individual adjustment cost, group adjustment cost, and compatibility loss cost. In this chapter, an MSMulCC model is developed and the impact of different types of consensus costs on CRP. Finally, the feasibility and characteristics of the proposal are revealed through a comparative analysis.