Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Dear Colleagues,

Organizations face problems during the process of complex decision making in multifaceted situations where multiple criteria and factors are involved. Real-world decision-support systems require consideration and analysis on the basis of multiple criteria which, in turn, affect the final decisions. Researchers concerned with the design and development of intelligent decision-making systems hunt for innovative scientific techniques, tools and models to improve the quality of the anticipated decisions. 

To achieve this goal of improved decision making, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have recently been extensively practiced by researchers. As a result, significant improvements have been observed in decisions for a wide range of real-world complex problems. The integration of MCDM and AI offers new competencies to the configuration of complex decision making in different environments (e.g., static and distributed). These comprise the management of large datasets, the construction and modelling of innovative decision models, and the development of effective computational optimization algorithms for problem solving.

This Special Issue aims to solicit high-quality original research and review articles that cover novel, cutting-edge technologies and methods concerned with the scientific design, development and implementation of decision-support systems on the basis of MCDM and AI.

Potential topics include:

• Intelligent decision-support technologies;
• Data mining models for decision making;
• Evidential reasoning;
• Machine learning and deep learning models for decision making;
• Evolutionary multiobjective optimization;
• Fuzzy modelling;
• Computational intelligence in MDCM;
• Multi-criteria models for intelligent decision support system (IDSS) assessment;
• Multi-attribute decision support;
• Rule-based approach to multicriteria decision making;
• Application of evidence theory in MCDM;
• Multiobjective optimization problems;
• Fuzzy multiobjective optimization;
• Applications of the mentioned techniques across a wide range of areas, including, business, healthcare, education, industry, research, management, engineering, etc.

Dr. Rahman Ali
Dr. Asad Masood Khattak
Dr. Farkhund Iqbal
Guest Editors

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