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Corrigendum to “Multi-objective optimization in real-time operation of rainwater harvesting systems” [EURO Journal on Decision Processes Volume 11 (2023) 100039] EURO Journal on Decision Processes (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yi Zhen, Kate Smith-Miles, Tim D. Fletcher, Matthew J. Burns, Rhys A. Coleman
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Editorial: Feature Issue on Fair and Explainable Decision Support Systems EURO Journal on Decision Processes (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Luis Galarraga del prado, Miguel Couceiro
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Editorial Board EURO Journal on Decision Processes (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-14
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Risk attitudes: The central tendency bias EURO Journal on Decision Processes (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Karl Akbari, Markus Eigruber, Rudolf Vetschera
Unincentivized measurement instruments of risk attitudes suffer from several weaknesses. One is that respondents do not consistently assign themselves to their respective risk preference categories. In particular, they are subject to a central tendency bias and classify themselves as risk-neutral when they are in fact not. We test the robustness of the central tendency bias in lottery-type questions
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A multi-objective optimization design to generate surrogate machine learning models in explainable artificial intelligence applications EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Wellington Rodrigo Monteiro, Gilberto Reynoso-Meza
Decision-making is crucial to the performance and well-being of any organization. While artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly used in the industry for decision-making purposes, the adoption of decision-making techniques to develop new artificial intelligence models does not follow the same trend. Complex artificial intelligence algorithm structures such as gradient boosting, ensembles
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Multi-period fuzzy portfolio optimization model subject to real constraints EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Moad El Kharrim
In this paper we examine a multi-period portfolio optimization problem in a fuzzy environment. The proposed optimization model is subject to CVaR constraint, transaction constraint and cardinality constraint. The returns of the assets are assumed to be trapezoidal fuzzy variables and therefore the portfolio return and risk are quantified by the possibilistic mean and semivariance of the fuzzy returns
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Multi-objective optimization in real-time operation of rainwater harvesting systems EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Yi Zhen, Kate Smith-Miles, Tim D. Fletcher, Matthew J. Burns, Rhys A. Coleman
Increased population growth and urbanization have brought critical challenges to urban water systems, including water scarcity and environmental degradation. To address the problems, real-time controlled rainwater storages are now being used to reduce flooding by intercepting rainfall, while also providing an alternate water supply and actively restoring baseflow to improve biodiversity outcomes. These
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Editorial: Special Issue on Decision Processes in Policy Design EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Dr. Irene Pluchinotta, Dr. Ine Steenmans
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Proposing a bi-objective model for the problem of designing a resilient supply chain network of pharmaceutical-health relief items under disruption conditions by considering lateral transshipment EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Soheil Javaheri Fazel, Mohammad Rostamkhani, Mehdi Rashidnejad
In this paper, a bi-objective mathematical model is presented for the problem of designing a resilient supply chain network of pharmaceutical-health relief items in the condition of disruption, taking into account the possibility of lateral transshipment. The first objective function of the model aims to minimize the total costs and considering the importance of effective and efficient distribution
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Fairness and explainability in automatic decision-making systems. A challenge for computer science and law EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Th. Kirat, O. Tambou, V. Do, A. Tsoukiàs
The paper offers a contribution to the interdisciplinary constructs of analyzing fairness issues in automatic algorithmic decisions. Section 2 shows that technical choices in supervised learning have social implications that need to be considered. Section 3 proposes a contextual approach to the issue of unintended group discrimination, i.e. decision rules that are facially neutral but generate disproportionate
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Survey on fairness notions and related tensions EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Guilherme Alves, Fabien Bernier, Miguel Couceiro, Karima Makhlouf, Catuscia Palamidessi, Sami Zhioua
Automated decision systems are increasingly used to take consequential decisions in problems such as job hiring and loan granting with the hope of replacing subjective human decisions with objective machine learning (ML) algorithms. However, ML-based decision systems are prone to bias, which results in yet unfair decisions. Several notions of fairness have been defined in the literature to capture
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A simple declarative model of the Federal Disaster Assistance Policy - modelling and measuring transparency EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Mark Dukes
In this paper we will provide a quantitative analysis of a simple model of the Federal Disaster Assistance policy from the viewpoint of three different stakeholders. This quantitative methodology is new and has applications to other areas such as business and healthcare processes. The stakeholders are interested in process transparency but each has a different opinion on precisely what constitutes
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Optimal preventive policies for parallel systems using Markov decision process: application to an offshore power plant EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Mario Marcondes Machado, Thiago Lima Silva, Eduardo Camponogara, Edilson Fernandes de Arruda, Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho
This work proposes a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model for identifying windows of opportunities to perform preventive maintenance for multi-unit parallel systems subject to a varying demand. The main contribution lies in proposing: (i) a reward function that does not depend on maintenance costs, which are typically difficult to assess and classify; and (ii) a new metric for prevention. By optimizing
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Determining the right time to advertise adopter numbers for a two-sided digital platform: An agent-based simulation optimization approach EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Michelle D. Haurand, Christian Stummer
The adoption of two-sided digital platforms is influenced by cross-side network effects, that is, the number of adopters on the demand side of a platform affects the number of adopters on the supply side and vice versa. Accordingly, publicizing adopter numbers might stimulate platform success. However, finding the right point in time to do so is difficult because there is little or no research on corresponding
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Fairkit, fairkit, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Supporting fairness-related decision-making EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Brittany Johnson, Jesse Bartola, Rico Angell, Sam Witty, Stephen Giguere, Yuriy Brun
Modern software relies heavily on data and machine learning, and affects decisions that shape our world. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that because of biases in data, software systems frequently inject bias into their decisions, from producing more errors when transcribing women’s than men’s voices to overcharging people of color for financial loans. To address bias in software, data scientists
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Reflections on 50 years of MCDM: Issues and future research needs EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Simon French
Modern discussions of multiple criteria decision-making extend back about half a century. I reflect on key developments, schools of thought and controversies that have taken place over the period, arguing that perhaps those of us in different schools focus too much on our differences and do not capitalise enough on what we share in common. Moreover, the differences between schools are indications of
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Confidence in bargaining processes and outcomes: Empirical tests of a conceptual model EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Rudolf Vetschera, Luis C. Dias
The relationship between negotiation processes and outcomes is a challenging problem for theoretical and empirical analyses. In this paper, we study whether a dynamic bargaining model that incorporates a notion of negotiator confidence in the process and that predicts the asymmetric Nash bargaining solution as the outcome is compatible with observations in negotiation experiments. This requires establishing
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Is there an ethical operational research practice? And what this implies for our research? EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-01-18 O. Bellenguez, N. Brauner, A. Tsoukiàs
The ethical dimension of Operational Research and Decision Aiding, although not a new subject, has become more of a concern, both for the large public and the OR community, because of the wide spread of autonomous artefacts endowed with decision capacity thanks to the use of models, methods and tools developed within our field. The paper addresses the question of whether there exists an “Ethical Operational
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Capability theory inspired tools for aiding policy design EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Nicolas Fayard, Chabane Mazri, Alexis Tsoukiás
This paper aims at suggesting that welfare measurement could be based upon Sen’s capability approach (CA). This should allow establishing a “rational” framework improving how we aide the design and assessment of public policies. We propose the use of a multi-objective mathematical program as basis for measuring individual’s welfare and suggest that citizens with similar capabilities could be clustered
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A multicriteria decision aid perspective that guides an incremental development of knowledge and fosters relationships and decisions EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Rocco Curto, Maria Franca Norese, Diana Rolando
“Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century”, is the 54th UNESCO site in Italy, and it has been in the World Heritage List since July 2018. Its inclusion was the result of a complex decision process, which needs to be reactivated to enhance this large, unitary urban system of great historical, architectural and environmental value. The huge dimensions and extreme heterogeneity of the built heritage
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Spot market versus full charter fleet: Decision support for full truck load tenders EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Veaceslav Ghilas, Ivo Hedtke, Joachim Weise, Tom Van Woensel
Given the dynamics of today’s markets, decision support based on advanced analytics is required to help market players keep their top position. This paper presents an approach to help business decision-makers gain market share by providing competitive tender offers for Full Truck Load (FTL) services. In particular, we compare operating a fleet of full charter trucks (FCT), using Spot-Market (SM) capacity
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Soft OR as a response to inherent vices: Problem structuring to offset policy volatility EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Ching Leong, Michael Howlett
Most policies suffer from what we call the “inherent vices” of policy design – attributes which increase policy volatility and risks of failure. These risks of uncertainty, maliciousness and non-compliance often emerge from the human or behavioural aspects of policy processes, such as when target populations fail to comply with rules designed to achieve a specific public value, or when policy-makers
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Large-scale participation in policy design: citizen proposals for rural development in Tunisia EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Houssem BRAIKI, Emeline HASSENFORDER, Guillaume LESTRELIN, Sylvie MORARDET, Nicolas FAYSSE, Soumaya YOUNSI, Nils FERRAND, Crystèle LEAUTHAUD, Nadhira BEN AISSA, Safouane MOUELHI, Sihem JEBARI, Xavier AUGUSSEAU, Amar IMACHE, Audrey BARBE, Jean-Yves JAMIN, Houria AMRI, Hajer ARFA, Ali BAYAR, Ezzeddine ZOUARI
More and more literature and practice recommend involving the public at the early stages of the policy cycle, i.e. issue identification, definition of the policy objectives and policy design. Policy design involves, among others, identifying solutions, ideas or alternatives which may address the policy objectives. Three main arguments are often put forward to advocate for the involvement of stakeholders
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A metafrontier Global Malmquist framework for hospitals productivity and quality measurement: Evidence from the Greek economic recession EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Panagiotis Mitropoulos
The main purpose of the study is to examine how the global economic crisis has affected the hospital productivity growth and quality performance of public hospitals in Greece. Through the nonparametric estimation of a quality-adjusted metafrontier Malmquist index, the study accounts the heterogeneity of hospitals according to the hierarchical levels of the healthcare system (primary, secondary and
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Gamifying and evaluating problem structuring: A card game workshop for generating decision objectives EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Alice H. Aubert, Jennifer McConville, Sara Schmid, Judit Lienert
Serious games, gamification, or game-based interventions are increasingly used as tools to aid participatory decision-making processes, but their evaluation is often not very rigorous. Therefore, it is still unclear whether game-based interventions are really beneficial. We focused on the following overarching question: how effective are game-based interventions specifically designed to support decision-making
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Dynamics of short-term and long-term decision-making in English housing associations: A study of using systems thinking to inform policy design EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Ke Zhou, Nici Zimmermann, Elanor Warwick, Helen Pineo, Marcella Ucci, Michael Davies
Incorporating consideration of causal mechanisms of complex policy issues and goals is critical for policy design, but tools to support exploration of the interconnections, trade-offs and unintended consequences of a focused policy issue are limited. Understanding how to undertake systems-based policy design is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Through a case study with two housing
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C-KE/I: A pragmatic framework for policy innovation EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Yves Meinard, Irene Pluchinotta
Improving policy making is key to address numerous contemporary challenges such as the environmental crisis, climate change, global inequality, financial crises, or pandemics. Policy making is a sequence of stages structuring policy problems and choices made to address them. Among these stages, policy design is a crucial phase since it impacts the quality of the policy alternatives being considered
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Proposal, design, and evaluation of a values-based online survey EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-05-02 S.L. Philpot, C.T. Philpot, K.W. Hipel, P.A. Johnson
A values-informed modeling software program is proposed and developed for enhancing online surveys. The authors explore a method to prompt users to examine the interactions between their preferences over a set of alternatives and their values in an online survey. The authors first present the underlying theories, design parameters, and features used to prompt values-informed thinking in participants
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Heuristics in multi-criteria decision-making: The cost of fast and frugal decisions EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Florian Methling, Sara J.M. Abdeen, Rüdiger von Nitzsch
There has been an ongoing debate in research regarding the use of heuristics in decision-making. Advocators have succeeded in showing that applying heuristics not only reduces effort but can even be more accurate than analytical approaches under certain conditions. Others point out the biases and cognitive distortions inherent in disregarding information. Researchers have used both simulations and
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A problem structuring method framework for value-focused thinking EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Rafael Verão Françozo, Mischel Carmen Neyra Belderrain
Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) is used in many situations to identify and structure value-based objectives. VFT shares motivations with the consolidated field of Operations Research (OR), called Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs). This study presents a historical outline of the origins of PSMs and how VFT fits into the literature. The procedures adopted involve a literature review on VFT applications
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The q-Rung orthopair fuzzy hamacher generalized shapley choquet integral operator and its application to multiattribute decision making EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Pankaj Kakati, Saifur Rahman
The q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFs) which are eminent extensions of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and the pythagorean fuzzy sets can be considered as an efficient tool for modeling real life decision making problems involving uncertainty of information. In this paper, in order to reflect the correlation among the attributes of real decision making problems, the Choquet integral operator is extended
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Selecting a green supplier utilizing the new fuzzy voting model and the fuzzy combinative distance-based assessment method EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Hamid Sharafi, Mehdi Soltanifar, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi
Significant increase in environmental concerns has led organizations to consider the necessary measures to apply green supply chain management to improve their environmental and economic performance. An important way to implement green supply chain management is to revise the methods of purchasing and selecting green suppliers. In this paper, a new fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model for green
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Multi-objective vehicle routing problem with flexible scheduling for the collection of refillable glass bottles: A case study EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Isidoros Marampoutis, Marina Vinot, Lorraine Trilling
Deposit return systems have started making their reappearance as more environmentally conscious consumers seek ways to effectively reduce their carbon footprint. An example is the management of refillable glass bottles which requires a well-organized collection network with inventory management. A collection planning with an efficient algorithm and information system has to be applied. This paper investigates
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LSTM-based Deep Learning Model for Stock Prediction and Predictive Optimization Model EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Akhter Mohiuddin Rather
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Construction and application of hyper-inverse conflict models based on the sequential stability EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Yu Han, Haiyan Xu, Ginger Y. Ke
Based on the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), an analytical framework is proposed to assist the focal decision maker (DM) with an informational advantage in resolving real-world hyper-inverse conflict situations considering the sequential (SEQ) stability. The hyper-inverse conflict resolution aims to obtain the opponent’s misunderstanding preferences of focal DM, which can assist the focal
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Profiling analysts and actors in interaction: how behavioural aspects can positively affect the decision aid process EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Maria Franca Norese
The behaviour of the actors in a decision aid process is determined by different factors, all of which have an impact on the effectiveness of the process and its results. A framework, originally created to document decision aid processes and to study the reasons for backward and forward cycles in the process, has been used to comparatively analyse several multi-criteria decision aid interventions.
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Enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of existing FAHP decision-making methods EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Toly Chen
Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) has been extensively applied to multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). However, the computational burden resulting from the calculation of fuzzy eigenvalue and eigenvector is heavy. As a result, a FAHP problem is usually solved using approximation techniques such as fuzzy geometric mean (FGM) and fuzzy extent analysis (FEA) instead of exact methods. Therefore
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What does it mean to provide decision support to a responsible and competent expert? EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Antoine Richard, Brice Mayag, François Talbot, Alexis Tsoukias, Yves Meinard
Decision support consists in helping a decision-maker to improve his/her decisions. However, clients requesting decision support are often themselves experts and are often taken by third parties and/or the general public to be responsible for the decisions they make. This predicament raises complex challenges for decision analysts, who have to avoid infringing upon the expertise and responsibility
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Effects of information presentation on regulatory decisions for products of biotechnology EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Rim Lassoued, Hayley Hesseln, Peter W. B. Phillips, Stuart J. Smyth
Experts and laypeople often have to make judgements based on a large body of evidence that is uncertain and inconclusive. Theory suggests people are likely to modify their decisions according to how information is framed and structured. This study assesses the effect of information form (text versus numerical) and sequence (bundled versus non-bundled) on decision outcomes regarding the regulation of
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Can 1 h of training lead to better project decision-making? EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-05-13 David Newman,Steve Begg,Matthew Welsh
An experiment was set up to determine whether some short, focused training could influence decision makers to take a more structured and process-based approach to project decision-making. The experiment also investigated the impact on project decision-making of the way a decision is framed by an authority figure, i.e. how a decision is influenced by an authority figure advocating a process-driven,
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Can 1 h of training lead to better project decision-making? EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-05-13 David Newman, Steve Begg, Matthew Welsh
An experiment was set up to determine whether some short, focused training could influence decision makers to take a more structured and process-based approach to project decision-making. The experiment also investigated the impact on project decision-making of the way a decision is framed by an authority figure, i.e. how a decision is influenced by an authority figure advocating a process-driven,
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Analysis of labor strike based on evolutionary game and catastrophe theory EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-04-10 Ahmad Makui,Seyed Mohammad Seyedhosseini,Seyed Jafar Sadjadi,Parinaz Esmaeili
This paper analyzes the labor–employer relations during conditions that lead to strike using an evolutionary game and catastrophe theory. During a threat to strike, the employers may accept the whole or only a part of the demands of labors and improve the work conditions or decline the demands, and each selected strategies has its respective costs and benefits. The threat to strike action causes the
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Analysis of labor strike based on evolutionary game and catastrophe theory EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-04-10 Ahmad Makui, Seyed Mohammad Seyedhosseini, Seyed Jafar Sadjadi, Parinaz Esmaeili
This paper analyzes the labor–employer relations during conditions that lead to strike using an evolutionary game and catastrophe theory. During a threat to strike, the employers may accept the whole or only a part of the demands of labors and improve the work conditions or decline the demands, and each selected strategies has its respective costs and benefits. The threat to strike action causes the
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Pythagorean fuzzy ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator and their application to multiple attribute group decision-making EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-04-06 K. Rahman,S. Abdullah,A. Ali,F. Amin
The objective of the present work is twofold. First, Pythagorean fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (PFOWA) aggregation operator is introduced along with its desirable properties, namely commutatively, idempotency, boundedness and monotonicity. Finally, the proposed operator is applied to decision making problems to show the validity, practicality and effectiveness of the new approach. The main advantage
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Pythagorean fuzzy ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator and their application to multiple attribute group decision-making EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2020-04-06 K. Rahman, S. Abdullah, A. Ali, F. Amin
The objective of the present work is twofold. First, Pythagorean fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (PFOWA) aggregation operator is introduced along with its desirable properties, namely commutatively, idempotency, boundedness and monotonicity. Finally, the proposed operator is applied to decision making problems to show the validity, practicality and effectiveness of the new approach. The main advantage
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An affective decision-making model with applications to social robotics EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Si Liu,David Ríos Insua
With the proliferation of information and communication technologies, especially with recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, social robots at home and the workplace are no longer being treated as lifeless and emotionless, leading to proposals which aim at incorporating affective elements within agents. Advances in areas such as affective decision-making and affective computing drive this interest
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Decision support for sustainable and resilience-oriented urban parcel delivery EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Max Leyerer,Marc-Oliver Sonneberg,Maximilian Heumann,Michael H. Breitner
The worldwide trend of urbanization, the rising needs of individuals, and the continuous growth of e-commerce lead to increasing urban delivery activities, which are a substantial driver of traffic and pollution in cities. Due to rising public pressure, emission-reducing measures are increasingly likely to be introduced. Such measures can cover diesel bans or even entire car-free zones, causing drastic
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An affective decision-making model with applications to social robotics EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Si Liu, David Ríos Insua
With the proliferation of information and communication technologies, especially with recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, social robots at home and the workplace are no longer being treated as lifeless and emotionless, leading to proposals which aim at incorporating affective elements within agents. Advances in areas such as affective decision-making and affective computing drive this interest
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Decision support for sustainable and resilience-oriented urban parcel delivery EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Max Leyerer, Marc-Oliver Sonneberg, Maximilian Heumann, Michael H. Breitner
The worldwide trend of urbanization, the rising needs of individuals, and the continuous growth of e-commerce lead to increasing urban delivery activities, which are a substantial driver of traffic and pollution in cities. Due to rising public pressure, emission-reducing measures are increasingly likely to be introduced. Such measures can cover diesel bans or even entire car-free zones, causing drastic
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SOMERSET-P: a GIS-based/MCDA platform for strategic planning scenarios’ ranking and decision-making in conflictual socioecosystem EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-04 Jean-Francois Guay,Jean-Philippe Waaub
This contribution proposes an application of the SOMERSET-P platform for strategic environmental assessment of regional planning scenarios related to the municipality of Ste-Claire (Quebec, Canada). The platform combines spatial analysis and multicriteria decision-aid support and is supplied with data from several stakeholder expectations and planning issues. Stakeholders are modeled according to the
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SOMERSET-P: a GIS-based/MCDA platform for strategic planning scenarios’ ranking and decision-making in conflictual socioecosystem EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-04 Jean-Francois Guay, Jean-Philippe Waaub
This contribution proposes an application of the SOMERSET-P platform for strategic environmental assessment of regional planning scenarios related to the municipality of Ste-Claire (Quebec, Canada). The platform combines spatial analysis and multicriteria decision-aid support and is supplied with data from several stakeholder expectations and planning issues. Stakeholders are modeled according to the
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Editorial featured papers on environmental decisions EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-02 Judit Lienert,Igor Linkov
Our society is facing serious environmental challenges related to climate change, pollution, diminishing resources, and biodiversity loss. Such problems are often ill-defined and are characterized by high uncertainty. Environmental decisions have strong impacts on society and demand clear and transparent trade-offs across values and priorities of stakeholder groups. This Feature Issue on Environmental
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Editorial featured papers on environmental decisions EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-12-02 Judit Lienert, Igor Linkov
Our society is facing serious environmental challenges related to climate change, pollution, diminishing resources, and biodiversity loss. Such problems are often ill-defined and are characterized by high uncertainty. Environmental decisions have strong impacts on society and demand clear and transparent trade-offs across values and priorities of stakeholder groups. This Feature Issue on Environmental
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Records of engagement and decision making for environmental and socio-ecological challenges EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-11-30 Kristan Cockerill,Pierre Glynn,Ilan Chabay,Mahmud Farooque,Raimo P. Hämäläinen,Ben Miyamoto,Patricia McKay
We propose creating and maintaining records of engagement and decision-making (RoED) to help us and our communities better understand ourselves, our goals, our decisions, and the dynamic systems in which we all live. The purpose of RoED is to go well beyond noting that dialogue occurred or a decision was reached. The records should, in ways appropriate to the context and participants, document interactions
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Records of engagement and decision making for environmental and socio-ecological challenges EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-11-30 Kristan Cockerill, Pierre Glynn, Ilan Chabay, Mahmud Farooque, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Ben Miyamoto, Patricia McKay
We propose creating and maintaining records of engagement and decision-making (RoED) to help us and our communities better understand ourselves, our goals, our decisions, and the dynamic systems in which we all live. The purpose of RoED is to go well beyond noting that dialogue occurred or a decision was reached. The records should, in ways appropriate to the context and participants, document interactions
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A cost-effective framework to prioritise stakeholder participation options EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Shuang Liu,Kirsten Maclean,Cathy Robinson
Stakeholder participation is increasingly being embedded into decision-making processes from the local to the global scale. With limited resources to engage stakeholders, frameworks that allow decision-makers to make cost-effective choices are greatly needed. In this paper, we present a structured decision-making (SDM) framework that enables environmental decision-makers to prioritise different engagement
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A cost-effective framework to prioritise stakeholder participation options EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Shuang Liu, Kirsten Maclean, Cathy Robinson
Stakeholder participation is increasingly being embedded into decision-making processes from the local to the global scale. With limited resources to engage stakeholders, frameworks that allow decision-makers to make cost-effective choices are greatly needed. In this paper, we present a structured decision-making (SDM) framework that enables environmental decision-makers to prioritise different engagement
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A refined utility function for modeling “me” vs. “us” allocation in a sequential group decision process EURO Journal on Decision Processes Pub Date : 2019-11-20 Dmitry Gimon,Alexandre Bevilacqua Leoneti
Considering the psychological aspects of altruism and reciprocity in strategic interactions, we propose using the Cobb–Douglas utility function to refine standard utility functions as a weighted product of the player’s utility (“me” factor) and the jointly utility of players (“us” factor). We model an altruism willingness function to define the strategic allocation within “me” vs. “us” based on perceived