The environment in which managers currently operate is dynamic and turbulent. This fact affects the great complexity and dynamism of changes. Thus, decision-making becomes more complex in the context of sustainability. Decisive decision-making is bec...
Quality tools have a well-established place in business management. They help diagnose, analyze, and solve quality problems. In manufacturing companies, they are also used in process and product improvement projects. However, only the proper selectio...
This study examines the determinants of investment decision quality among individual investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) financial market. As digital investment platforms continue to expand access to financial information and investment oppor...
In engineering design, the decision-making process holds significant importance as it plays an important role in determining the outcomes of a task. The decision-making process is notably influenced by various factors, with particular focus on the pe...
All professional decisions prepared for a specific stakeholder can and must be explained. The primary role of explanation is to defend and reinforce the proposed decision, supporting stakeholder confidence in the validity of the decision. In this pap...
Total laryngectomy is a surgical procedure for advanced laryngeal cancer and can affect speech, swallowing, and breathing. This study compared the quality of life, swallowing function, and decision regret among patients who underwent primary total la...
Technological advancements in low-cost devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), numerical models, big data infrastructures, and high-performance computing are revolutionizing urban management, particularly air quality governance. This study examines th...
Software quality assessment in agile projects remains fragmented. Technical, process-related, and team-related indicators are often evaluated through separate models, tools, and reports. This fragmentation limits cross-project comparability and weake...
In the context of accelerated digital transformation, organizations increasingly operate as complex systems in which strategic decision-making is challenged by uncertainty, data heterogeneity, and bounded rationality. The integration of artificial in...
This study assesses De Lone and McLean’s Information System (D&M IS) Success Model concerning DAS throughout small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia (SA). The present work mainly sought to evaluate the impact of information qual...
The ability and rapid access to execution data and information in manufacturing workshops have been greatly improved with the wide spread of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technologies, enabling real-time unmanned integrated contr...
Operational decisions significantly influence organizational performance and individual well-being. Decision mining offers a method to discover and analyze decision logic from decision logs, enhancing decision-making processes. However, evaluating th...
With the growing adoption of data-driven workflows and the need to compare numerous interior design alternatives in housing renewal, scalable and consistent assessment of interior space quality is increasingly important; however, current practice sti...
In group decision making (GDM), experts from a variety of fields collaborate to select the best alternative. Due to external influences or a lack of sufficient knowledge, experts may sometimes offer low-quality opinions on alternatives. In existing G...
Technological advancement is driven by the development of high-tech systems. However, growing demands on technology lead to more system complexity and to complexity in developing organizations. Therefore, developing these high-tech systems requires s...
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a laboratory experiment that investigated how assortment planners’ perceptions, usage behavior, and decision quality are influenced by the way recommendations of an artificial intelligence (...
Housing acquisition decisions play a strategic role in shaping urban habitability and long-term sustainability, as they directly influence the quality of the built environment and users’ well-being. From an architectural and urban perspective,...
The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has profoundly reshaped the decision-making environment of resource-intensive industries, yet the mechanisms through which AI-driven decision support systems (AIDSS) are associ...
Continuous detection of critical events such as falls and health deterioration is enabled by Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled monitoring systems in elderly care. However, system reliability is undermined by real-world sensor degradation, which produc...
Quality control (QC) may be applied as a framework for maintenance planning when assigning different intervention measures to single structural elements or systems. This work proposes a reliability-based maintenance decision-making process for planni...
Urban managers and decision-makers may approach Urban Environmental Quality (UEQ) assessment with perspectives that range from highly pessimistic to highly optimistic scenarios. The objective of this study was to introduce a scenario-driven spatial d...
Quality function deployment (QFD) is now used in various fields, such as product development, design, manufacturing, planning, and quality management services, as a planning tool to achieve customer requirements and needs while improving performance...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted almost every sector. This impact has been especially felt in the healthcare sector, as the pandemic has affected its stability, which has highlighted the need for improvements in service. As such, we p...
Fruit drying transforms a living, water-rich tissue into a stable food through coupled changes in moisture distribution, structure, color, nutrients, and aroma. Although drying technologies and non-destructive sensing have advanced rapidly, these fie...
When planning the energy demand of ventilation, proper consideration should be given to the possible scenarios of indoor air quality and pollutant concentrations. The purpose of the present research is to create a practical method of prioritising ind...
29 January 2020
Background: The patient is observed to acquire a passive role and the nurse an expert role with a maternalistic attitude. This relationship among others determines the capacity for autonomy in the decision making of patients. Objectives: The aim of t...
While it is well-known knowledge management is crucial for an organization’s competitive advantage, relatively little research has explored the process whereby knowledge management affects firm performance in a collectivistic culture such as China. T...
3 November 2026
AI assistance and augmented reality (AR) can make shopping easier without necessarily improving the resulting decision. This conceptual article develops a model of when consumers can inspect, redirect, or reject assistance and when those opportunitie...
This study addresses risk management in quality management systems by analyzing risk prioritization using the multi-criteria methods Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The primary objective...
Background: Renal biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing renal disease. The major concern is bleeding. Shared decision making (SDM) has been reported to improve communication but has never been used regarding renal biopsy. Methods: We launched a...
Biodiversity is an increasingly important aspect of wine production. The assessment of agro-ecosystem biodiversity is highly complex due to the heterogeneity of the elements involved in the evaluation. For this reason, wine companies have expressed a...
This paper describes a holistic quality model (HQM) and assessment to support decision-making processes in construction. A graded concrete slab serves as an example to illustrate how to consider technical, environmental, and social quality criteria a...
No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) has always been a difficult research problem because digital images may suffer very diverse types of distortions and their contents are extremely various. Moreover, IQA is also a very hot topic in the re...
Food waste occurs from harvesting to consumption. Applying procedures and technologies, changing attitudes, and promoting awareness have positive social, economic, and environmental impacts that can contribute to reducing food waste. The paper presen...
The global demand for high-quality animal products, particularly dairy, has intensified the need for more precise and efficient livestock feed formulation. This review connects data-driven decision-making in optimizing feed formulation to enhance mil...
Irrigators are increasingly challenged to maintain or even increase production using less water, sometimes of poorer quality, and often from unconventional sources. This paper describes the main features of a newly developed software-based Decision S...
Planning, managing and optimising surface water quality is a complex and multifaceted process, influenced by the effects of both climate uncertainties and anthropogenic activities. Developing an innovative and robust decision support framework (DSF)...
The rapid expansion of the express delivery sector, driven by the growth of e-commerce, has increased the importance of effective complaint management as an integral component of service quality and consumer protection. Although operational service p...
Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used quality system tool for translating customer requirements (CRs) into the engineering design requirements (DRs) of products or services. The conventional QFD analysis, however, has been criticized as...
Decision fusion plays a crucial role in achieving a cohesive and unified outcome by merging diverse perspectives. Within the realm of remote sensing classification, these methodologies become indispensable when synthesizing data from multiple sensors...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Motor Neuron Disease (MND), is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease. As ALS is currently incurable, the aim of the treatment is mainly to alleviate symptoms and improve quality of life (QoL). W...
Decision making for complex products often depends on subjective user experience, while competing alternatives may be supported by strongly unequal numbers of observations. This study develops an evidence-weighted multi-criteria decision-making metho...
New energy vehicles (NEVs) have gained increasing favor among NEV consumers due to their dual advantages of “low cost” and “environmental friendliness.” In recent years, the share of NEVs in the global automotive market has be...
16 September 2022
Universities across China have set up crisis management teams (CMTS) to deal with the crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study focuses on how the paternalistic leadership practices of a Chinese university CMT influence crisis strategic...
This world has a wide range of technologies and possibilities that are available to control air pollution. Still, finding the best solution to control the contamination of the air without having any impact on humans is a complicated task. This propos...
Currently, the development of renewable energy products (RES) encourages the search for innovative solutions that take into account key criteria from the point of view of their sustainable development. Despite efforts in this area, there is a lack of...
Proper functioning land information (LI) plays an indispensable role in supporting land-related decision-making processes. In recognition to this, substantial efforts have been made in Ethiopia to develop and modernize land information both in urban...
Flatness is a vital quality index that determines the dimensional accuracy of the cold-rolled strip. This paper designs a local shape wave extraction algorithm and a fuzzy classification algorithm for overall flatness defect classification based on c...
Background and Objectives: Clinical decision support systems are advocated to improve the quality and efficiency in healthcare. However, before implementation, validation of these systems needs to be performed. In this evaluation we tested our hypoth...
Behavioral finance research on public utilities remains limited, particularly studies that use archival organizational data to infer persistent decision patterns. This study examines whether revealed status quo bias (RSQB), defined as the persistence...
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