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Dr. Zhen Zhang, SM IEEE

Professor in Management Science and Decision Analysis
Institute of Systems Engineering, School of Economics and Management
Dalian University of Technology (DUT)

 

Address: Room D418, Haichuan Building, Dalian 116024, P. R. China
E-mail: zhen.zhang@dlut.edu.cn; ZhenZhang_CN@ieee.org
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Biography

Zhen Zhang received his Ph. D. in management science and engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2014. He also holds a B.S. in Engineering Management from China University of Petroleum (East China). From Oct. 2012 to Nov. 2013, he was a visiting Ph. D. student with the Decision Systems and e-Service Intelligence Laboratory, Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems, University of Technology, Sydney under the supervision of Prof. Jie Lu (AO, FIEEE) and A/Prof. Guangquan Zhang. He was also a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén from Nov. 2016 to Dec. 2016. He is now a professor and a deputy director of the Institute of Systems Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, as well as a core member of the Creative Research Group supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

His current research interests include computing with words, group decision making, multi-criteria decision making, preference learning, and complex network. He authored one monograph and more than 70 papers on refereed journals and conference proceedings, including European Journal of Operational Research，IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, Knowledge-Based Systems, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Information Fusion, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, among others. He is the principal investigator of four research projects funded by the NSFC and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, as well as a chief investigator of other research projects funded by the NSFC and the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Dr. Zhang servers as an associate editor of Group Decision and Negotiation (ABS 2, FMS-B, SSCI, IF=3.6), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 3.662), Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (IF: 1.3), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (IF: 3.0) and Frontiers in Big Data (IF: 2.4), an area editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI, IF: 2.5), an editorial board member of  Information Fusion (SCI, IF: 14.8) and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (ABS 3, FMS-A, SCI/SSCI, IF: 4.6), an editorial advisory board member of Kybernetes (SCI, IF: 2.5), an academic editor of Complexity (SCI, IF: 1.7), a guest editor of Group Decision and Negotiation and Systems (SSCI, IF: 2.3), the vice secretary-general of the Business Intelligence Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Management Modernization (CSMM) and the Data Science and Knowledge Systems Engineering Branch, Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC) and the secretary of the Big Data and Knowledge Management Branch Editorial Board, Management Science and Engineering Volume of Encyclopedia of China (The 3rd edition). Since 2010, he has been a peer reviewer for more than 100 ISI-indexed international journals and 20 international conferences, such as EJOR, IISE Transactions, IEEE-TFS, IEEE-TSMC, IEEE-TCYB, IEEE-TEM, IEEE-TCSS, IEEE-TNNLS, IEEE-TAI, ANOR, JORS and INFFUS. He is also a senior member of IEEE, a member of INFORMS, EUSFLAT, Operations Research Society of China (ORSC), Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics (CSOOPEM), Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Chinese Association of Automationof China (CAA), China Computer Federation (CCF) and SESC. In Sep. 2019, Dr. Zhang was awarded the Publons Global Peer Review Awards sponsored by Clarivate Analytics to honor his contribution for peer review in both Computer Science and Cross-Field.

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Selected Publications

  • Zihang Jia, Zhen Zhang*, Witold Pedrycz. Generation of granular-balls for clustering based on the principle of justifiable granularity, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2025, in press. (SCI, EI, IF=9.4, ABS 3)

  • Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*, Witold Pedrycz. An incremental preference elicitation-based approach to learning potentially non-monotonic preferences in multi-criteria sorting, European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, 323(2), pp. 553-570, doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.11.047. (SCI, EI, IF=6.0, ABS 4)

  • Qian Liang, Zhen Zhang*, Yingsheng Su. Constructive preference elicitation for multi-criteria decision analysis using an estimate-then-select strategy, Information Fusion, 118, 102926，doi: 10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102926. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=14.8).

  • Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*. Modeling personalized individual semantics in multicriteria decision making with incomplete linguistic preference relations: A preference disaggregation perspective, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025, 55(1), pp. 390-403, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2024.3472699. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=8.6, ABS 3).

  • Zhen Zhang, Zhuolin Li*, Wenyu Yu*. Lexicographic optimization-based approaches to learning a representative model for multi-criteria sorting with non-monotonic criteria, Computers & Operations Research, 2025, 175, 106917, doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2024.106917. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=4.1, ABS 3).

  •  Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*, Witold Pedrycz. Integrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples, Omega, 2025, 131, 103219, doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2024.103219. (SCI, SSCI, EI, IF=6.7, ABS 3).

  • Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li. Personalized individual semantics-based consistency control and consensus reaching in linguistic group decision making, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2022, 52(9), pp. 5623-5635, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2021.3129510. (2021 IF=11.471, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

  • Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu*, Luis Martínez, Yuan Gao. Managing multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information in multiattribute large-scale group decision making: A linguistic distribution-based approach, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020, 28(11), pp. 2875-2889, doi: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2019.2949758. (SCI, EI, 2020 IF=12.975, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

  • Zhen Zhang, Chonghui Guo, Luis Martínez. Managing multigranular linguistic distribution assessments in large-scale multiattribute group decision making, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2017, 47(11), pp. 3063-3076, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2016.2560521. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2017 IF=5.131, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu*. Consensus reaching for ordinal classification-based group decision making with heterogeneous preference information, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2024, 75(2), pp. 224-245, doi: 10.1080/01605682.2023.2186806. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2021 IF=3.051, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*. Threshold-based value-driven method to support consensus reaching in multicriteria group sorting problems: A minimum adjustment perspective, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024, 11(1), pp. 1230-1243. (SCI, EI, 2021 IF=4.747, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Yuan Gao, Zhen Zhang*. Consensus reaching with non-cooperative behavior management for personalized individual semantics-based social network group decision making, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2022, 73(11), pp. 2518-2535, doi: 10.1080/01605682.2021.1997654. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2021 IF=3.051, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

  • Zhen Zhang, Xinyue Kou, Wenyu Yu*, Yuan Gao. Consistency improvement for fuzzy preference relations with self-confidence: An application in two-sided matching decision making, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2021, 72(8), pp. 1914-1927, doi: 10.1080/01605682.2020.1748529. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2021 IF=3.051, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li, Yuan Gao. Consensus reaching for group decision making with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic information: A bounded confidence and minimum adjustment-based approach, Information Fusion, 2021, 74, pp. 96-110, doi: 10.1016/j.inffus.2021.04.006. (SCI, EI, 2021 IF=17.564, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Yuzhu Wu, Zhen Zhang, Gang Kou, Hengjie Zhang, Xiangrui Chao, Cong-Cong Li, Yucheng Dong*, Francisco Herrera. Distributed linguistic representations in decision making: Taxonomy, applications, and challenges in data science and artificial intelligence, Information Fusion, 2021, 65, pp. 165-178, doi: 10.1016/j.inffus.2020.08.018. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2021 IF=17.564, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li. Consensus-based TOPSIS-Sort-B for multi-criteria sorting in the context of group decision making, Annals of Operations Research, 2023, 325(2), pp. 911-938, doi: 10.1007/s10479-022-04985-w. (SCI, 2021 IF=4.82, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Wenyu Yu, Zhen Zhang*, Qiuyan Zhong. Consensus reaching for MAGDM with multi-granular hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets: a minimum adjustment-based approach, Annals of Operations Research, 2021, 300(2), pp. 443-466, doi: 10.1007/s10479-019-03432-7. (SCI, 2021 IF=4.82, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • Zhen Zhang*, Yuan Gao, Zhuolin Li. Consensus reaching for social network group decision making by considering leadership and bounded confidence, Knowledge-Based System, 2020, 204, 106240, doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106240. (SCI, EI, 2020 IF=8.038, ESI highly cited paper)

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