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End-of-life (EOL) decisions in families are complex and emotional sites of family interaction necessitating family members coordinate roles in the EOL decision-making process. How family members in the United States enact the decision-maker role in E...

Public participation in environmental decision-making (EDM) has been broadly discussed. However, few recent studies in English have focused on the participation subject, scope, ways, and procedure in the EDM of developing countries such as China in t...

In next-generation wireless communication systems, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recognized as essential technology for improving the spectrum efficiency. NOMA allows multiple users transmit data using the same resource block simulta...

Industry 4.0 could drastically change not only firms’ production sites, organization, operation, and marketing but also industrial competition rules. This study aims at investigating a real situation of firms’ willingness to adapt to Indu...

Many real-world optimization problems involving several conflicting objective functions frequently appear in current scenarios and it is expected they will remain present in the future. However, approaches combining multi-objective optimization with...

Grey target decision making is a useful tool to solve multiple-criteria decision-making problems. Decision makers’ expected information can reflect their preferences and play an important role in decision process. In this paper, a new grey targ...

The value of big data for social sciences and social impact is professed to be high. This potential value is related, however, to the capacity of using extracted information in decision-making. In all of this, one important point has been overlooked:...

Sustainable development results from the harmonious integration of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Building on available risk analysis capacities, this study employs risk perception as a diagnostic tool to evaluate t...

Against the backdrop of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect in the European Union (EU), a debate emerged about the role of citizens and their relationship with data. European city authorities claim that (smart) citizens are as...

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) are optimization problems where elements of the problems, such as the objective functions and/or constraints, change with time. These problems are characterized by two or more objective functions,...

This paper presents quantitative research results regarding a predictive model of pandemic disaster fear caused by the coronavirus disease (COVİD-19). The aim of this paper was to establish the level and impact of certain demographic and socioec...

Female genital mutilation/cutting “FGM/C” is a deep-rooted damaging practice. Despite the growing efforts to end this practice, the current trends of its decline are not enough to overcome the population’s underlying growth. The aim...

Live-streaming e-commerce is the future development direction of the retail industry. When retailers choose a live-streaming e-commerce platform, they face the test of various risks of the platform, such as insecure control of capital flow, insuffici...

The HTA R introduces provisions that may benefit member states, in particular the opportunity to share national or regional assessment reports, cooperate outside of clinical domains, or use the methodological guidelines on a local level for technolog...

Geopolitical conflict, tariff shocks, and rapidly evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulation have made global supply chains markedly less predictable. This study examined how manufacturing supply chain decision-makers perceive si...

The time dimension critically shapes decision-making and conflict evolution in real-world scenarios. This paper extends the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) framework by integrating time attributes, proposing a novel Time-Sensitive GMCR (TS...

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMSs) rely on a set of technologies to quickly adapt the manufacturing system capacity and/or functionality to meet unexpected disturbances, such as fluctuation/uncertainty of demand and/or unavailability/unrelia...

Aiming at a special type of ill-defined complicate multiple attributes group decision-making (MAGDM) problem, which exhibits hybrid complexity features of decision hesitancy, prioritized evaluative attributes, and unknown decision-makers’ weigh...

Urban logistics supports retail, public services, healthcare, construction, and household consumption, but delivery decisions often fail to account for the social costs imposed on congested roads, curbside space, air quality, noise exposure, safety,...

This paper addresses human error in network orchestration systems and the high cost and resource requirements of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) for network orchestration. It proposes a framework for implementing an AI decision-maker and aut...

With respect to different confidence on evaluation result from different decision-makers to the hybrid multi-attribute with risk, an approach to group decision- making based on prospect theory and projection theory is proposed. Firstly, a tuple is es...

There is an urgent need to build city resilience in order to face upcoming foreseen and unforeseen disasters more holistically, economically and collaboratively. Population trends mean that people are moving to urban areas and the traditional approac...

This paper deals with landscape understanding and connectivity from an ecological as well as a human perspective. It is based on a broader research study known as EIT Climate-KIC SATURN (System and sustainable Approach to virTuous interaction of Urba...

Long-term cancer survivorship care is a crucial component of an efficient healthcare system. For numerous reasons, there has been an increase in the number of cancer survivors; therefore, healthcare decision-makers are tasked with balancing a finite...

The European Directive on the Assessment and Management of Flood Risks is likely to cause changes to flood policy in Germany and other member states. With its risk governance approach, it introduces a holistic and catchment-oriented flood risk manage...

Reliable damage forecasting from droughts, which mainly stem from a spatiotemporal imbalance in rainfall, is critical for decision makers to formulate adaptive measures. The requirements of drought forecasting for decision makers are as follows: (1)...

This research extends Hasan Fathy’s (1986) principle of vernacular architecture by focusing on the Rawshan through an investigation of two criteria: aesthetics and energy efficiency. The paper discusses the views of both the Saudi public and key deci...

Dynamic decision-making is the process of seeking optimal choice with multiple related attributes under the multi-time-point situation. Considering that the time-varying nature of decision information can have a specific impact on the psychology of d...

A combination of geographic information system (GIS) and spatial multicriteria decision making (MCDA) in mine water inrush risk evaluation is widely used, but the randomness in the process of index weight determination and the risk-coping attitude of...

The improved evaluation based on the distance from average solution (EDAS) of the interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy set is proposed. At first, we propose a new distance between interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy numbers a...

Consensus or conflict agreements, and how these change over time, have significant consequences for understanding the network behavior of human beings, especially when it is necessary to have agreements to move companies and countries forward peacefu...

Given the diversity of active institutions and stakeholders in a landscape, and the difficulties in ensuring inclusive decision-making, evaluating landscape governance can help surface and address underlying issues. In the context of two protected ar...

Background: Scientific evidence plays a critical role in informing public health decision-making processes. However, the extent, nature, and effectiveness of its use remain uneven across contexts. Despite the increasing volume of literature on the su...

Rational Water Resources Management requires effective collaboration between decision-makers involved in the operational management of water resources and scientists, who can allow them to operate in an informed manner through forecasting and decisio...

This research addresses the strategic issue of why key decision-makers fail to foresee potential extreme ‘black swan’ events. Following a review of the literature, a conceptual framework is developed that identifies two types of organisat...

The judgments of decision-makers are frequently the best way to process the information on complex alternatives. However, the performances of the alternatives are often not observable in their entirety, which prevents researchers from conducting cont...

Despite the fact that some renewable energy (RE) technologies are already techno-economically viable, the high spatial dilution nature of their sources, together with aspects beyond the techno-economic ones (such as environmental, social, cultural, a...

Geometric programming problems are well-known in mathematical modeling. They are broadly used in diverse practical fields that are contemplated through an appropriate methodology. In this paper, a multi-parametric vector $\alpha$ is proposed for...

Satisfaction is relevant for decision makers (DM, Decision Makers). Satisfaction is the feeling produced in individuals by executing actions to satisfy their needs, for example, the payment of debts, jobs, or academic achievements, and the acquisitio...

DEA is a well-known decision making tool and efficiency measurement technique which was proposed by Charnes et al. in : 1978 in EJOR. Since then, the technique had proved itself in many application in many areas like banking, agriculture, transportat...

The study aims to develop a system of models and a method for optimizing the operating modes of a catalytic reforming unit using fuzzy information, which makes it possible to effectively control the reforming process of the object under study. The ob...

Indicators can help decision-makers evaluate interventions in a complex, multi-sectoral injury system. We aimed to create indicators for road safety, seniors falls, and ‘all-injuries’ to inform and evaluate injury prevention initiatives in British Co...

In group decision making, the knowledge, skills, and experience of the decision-makers may not be at the same level. Hence, the need arises to take into account not only the opinion, but also the relative importance of the opinion of each decision-ma...

In Water Resources Planning and Management, decision makers, although unsure of future outcomes, must take the most reliable and assuring decisions. Deterministic and probabilistic prediction techniques, combined with optimization tools, have been wi...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe risk their competitiveness if they fail to embrace digitalization. Indeed, SMEs are aware of the need to digitalize—more than one in two SMEs are concerned that they may lose competitiveness if they...

This review aims to map studies on governmental and institutional decision-making processes in emergencies. The literature reveals various approaches used by governments in managing emergencies. Consequently, this article suggests the need for a syst...

To support Group Decision-Making processes when participants are dispersed is a complex task. The biggest challenges are related to communication limitations that impede decision-makers to take advantage of the benefits associated with face-to-face G...

There is widespread support for the introduction of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) in Scotland as part of a policy response to record levels of drug-related harm. However, existing legal barriers are made more complex by the division of relevant power...

A local area configures a socio-economic system in which several institutions interact. As stakeholders hold different values and perhaps conflicting interests, managing local area performance is a dynamic and complex issue. In these inter-institutio...

There has been growing international interest in the role that wellbeing measures could play within policy making in health and social care. This project explored the opinions of a sample of UK decision-makers on the relevance of wellbeing and subjec...