A Quantum Group Decision-Making Approach for Evaluating Decarbonization Strategies of Highway Infrastructure

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10.2991/978-94-6239-652-4_24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Multi-attribute group decision-making; Trust aggregation; Quantum probability theory; Social network; Shapley value

Abstract

In complex and uncertain group decision-making (GDM) environments, decision-makers’ opinions are often mutually influential, while trust relationships typically exhibit multi-path structures and structural incompleteness. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a quantum GDM framework based on linguistic Z-numbers that explicitly incorporates quantum interference effects. Trust relationships among decision-makers are first aggregated within a quantum probability framework by jointly considering direct trust and trust transmission paths, thereby inferring missing pairwise trust information. Subsequently, an objective optimization model is developed to determine attribute weights by integrating attribute marginal contributions with closeness-based measures. Building on these results, a quantum-like Bayesian network is constructed to model interference effects among decision-makers, through which the quantum probabilities of alternatives are computed and used for ranking. Finally, the applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated through a case study on the decarbonization of highway infrastructure. Sensitivity, comparative, and simulation analyses further confirm the robustness of the proposed approach and its suitability for uncertain GDM scenarios.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenyan Li
AU  - Zhilin Zhao
AU  - Jing Ren
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/04/19
TI  - A Quantum Group Decision-Making Approach for Evaluating Decarbonization Strategies of Highway Infrastructure
BT  - Proceedings of the  2026 5th International Conference on Engineering Management and Information Science (EMIS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 238
EP  - 262
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-652-4_24
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-652-4_24
ID  - Li2026
ER  -