Large-Scale Group Decision-Making: State-to-the-Art Clustering and Consensus Paths

This book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors. This book focuses on the two key issues in large-scale group decision-making: clustering and consensus building. Clustering aims to reduce the dimension of a large group. Consensus reaching requires that the divergent individual opinions of the decision makers converge to the group opinion.

This book emphasizes the similarity of opinions a...