Social network group decision making: managing self-confidence-based consensus model with the dynamic importance degree of experts and trust-based feedback mechanism (Q2656747)

This paper studies a consensus reaching process focusing on the multiple self-confidence levels of experts in social network group decision making. A self-confidence-based consensus model with a dynamic importance degree of experts and trust-based feedback mechanism is introduced. The model considers the external trust and internal self-confidence to define the dynamic importance degrees of experts as well as the feedback adjustment. To quantify the consensus level between external trust and internal self-confidence of experts, the paper has adopted a group consensus index. Moreover, the experts are encouraged to dynamically adjust their self-confidence level to accelerate the consensus reaching process while revising their preferences. Some numerical calculations are performed to illustrate the model together with discussions regarding the model variations.