Comprehensive Analysis Method on the 2-mode Network of Expert Consultation

Expert consultation is a group decision making method often used in the argumentation. This paper proposes a 2-mode network for the expert consultation, and gives a procedure to study the network in static and dynamic way. The procedure includes a series of analytical methods such as correspondence analysis, cluster analysis, multi dimensional scaling, degree analysis and centrality analysis. Case study proves that those methods can help the chairman know the attention on each opinion, the contribution of each expert and the correspondence relationship between opinions and experts in a quantitative and visualized way, which can help us find the evolution of the opinion groups and catch the innovative ideas.