Decision Intelligence and Its Applications
A special issue of AI (ISSN 2673-2688).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: frequent pattern mining; interpretable models; explainable AI; robotic perception
Interests: biomedical engineering; distributed problem-solving; emergence; collective intelligence; crowdsourcing platforms; intractable graph problems; algorithmic game theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Decision Intelligence (DI) has been recently defined as a practical discipline focused on improving decision-making by explicitly understanding and engineering how decisions are made and how outcomes are evaluated, managed, and improved through feedback. In this Special Issue, we will focus on theoretical innovations and real-world cases in which artificial intelligence techniques can be part of decision intelligence applications. A particular emphasis will be devoted to analysing and understanding how artificial intelligence tools can interact, in order to improve decision-making, with existing, possibly heuristic processes, enabling a smooth and effective transition. Considering that one aspect of decision intelligence concerns the “explicit understanding” of how decisions are made, contributions in the field of applied explainable Artificial Intelligence, with an application-oriented flavour, will also be welcome. Even though both the field of applications of AI and the field of Explainable AI are widely explored, when considered alone, we think that putting the accent on bridging these concepts, identifying the decisional aspect as the connecting concept, can constitute an interesting and original element for the scientific literature in the evolving realm of AI. Following this idea, we are also glad to consider contributions arising from decision and management science, as well as psychology, exploring how the introduction of artificial intelligence can empower well-established paradigms and suggest new ones.
Dr. Damiano Verda
Dr. Christel Sirocchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- decision intelligence
- AI applications
- decision understanding
- explainability
- XAI
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