Consensus Reaching with Minimum Cost of Informed Individuals and Time Constraints in Group Decision Making
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Consensus reaching process (CRP) is important and present in a wide range of application areas. In practical CRP, the managers (e.g., enterprise) often hire some informed individuals (e.g., persuaders) to promote the efficiency of consensus reaching. This paper proposes a CRP with minimum cost of informed individuals and time constraint in large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) with bounded confidence effects. The consensus model with bounded confidence effects (CBC model) is formulated. Then, desirable properties of the CBC model are discussed to facilitate its resolution. Next, an extended Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is designed to solve the CBC model. Finally, a numerical analysis, a comparison analysis and a simulation analysis are provided to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.