A Multi-Step Interaction Opinion Dynamics Group Decision-Making Method and Its Application in Art Evaluation

Abstract

Due to the development of intelligent decision-making, social network group decision making (SNGDM) has become increasingly valued. Self-persistence is a significant topic in SNGDM problems, while it is ignored in most existing research. Besides, existing opinion evolution models often ignore high-order interactions because they assume individuals only communicate with their friends or neighbors. With these issues in mind, the authors propose a multi-step interaction opinion dynamics model to manage the consensus in SNGDM problem with self-persistence evolution. Given the decision makers' social network information, the centrality degree, interaction strength, and high-order interactions are combined to construct a social influence network. Inspired by the social influence model, the authors develop an opinion dynamic consensus model which also describes the evolution of self-persistence in a group of decision makers. Finally, an example and detailed simulation experiment are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed consensus model.