Title: Social Network Trust Propagation and Consensus

Report Abstract:
This talk will cover my research journey to the topic of trust propagation and consensus in social network. It will cover concepts such as preference consistency, incomplete information, and approaches to building consensus in group decision making that were later used in the context of social network.

Speaker: Francisco Chiclana

Date/Time: 10:00 – 12:00AM, July 10, 2019

Location: Room 704, College of Economics and Management Building, Jiangjun Rd. Campus

Speaker Biography:
Francisco Chiclana received the BSc and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1989 and 2000, respectively. He is a Professor of Computational Intelligence and Decision Making with the School of Computer Science and Informatics,  Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. During the period 2015-2018, he was Honorary Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada. He is an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for several ISI indexed journals. He has organized and chaired special sessions/workshops in many major international conferences in research areas as fuzzy preference modelling, decision support systems, consensus, recommender systems, social networks, rationality/consistency, aggregation.  Clarivate Analytics has currently classed Prof. Chiclana as a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Sciences.