INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO DECISION MAKING

This book highlights the enduring synergy between information technology and decision-making tools, showcasing how advancements in one field drive progress in the other. Featuring the discoveries of esteemed researchers from the International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, it provides an insightful exploration of foundational concepts and cutting-edge techniques.

This review volume opens with a broad overview of fundamental concepts like the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Threat-Oriented Person Screening Integrated System, (TOPSIS) across the past decades. Subsequent chapters explore how theoretical advances find practical application in diverse fields.

In this book, techniques from fuzzy logic find usage in uncertainty modelling, followed by the use of feature selection and recommendation in machine learning. The use of advanced optimization techniques for applications in price forecasting and the Internet of Things (IoT) are also covered. Additionally, the work presents novel methods under a neutrosophic environment as well as global and local importance used for multi-criteria decision-making. The prolific research presented helps to expand the repertoire of approaches to tackle problems in business strategy, healthcare and public policy.

This comprehensive resource is an essential reference for practitioners and researchers seeking to expand their expertise in decision-making and technology-driven solutions.

Contents:

• Foundations of Decision-Making Methods:
  • Analysis of Collaboration Evolution in AHP Research: 1982–2018 (Dejian Yu, Gang Kou, Zeshui Xu and Shun Shun Shi)
  • Development of TOPSIS Method to Solve Complicated Decision-Making Problems: An Overview on Developments from 2000 to 2015 (Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Abbas Mardani, Zenonas Turskis, Ahmad Jusoh and Khalil MD Nor)
  • When is a Decision-Making Method Trustworthy? Criteria for Evaluating Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods (Thomas L Saaty and Daji Ergu)
• Fuzzy Logic and Uncertainty Modeling:
  • Multiplicative Consistency of Hesitant Fuzzy Preference Relation and Its Application in Group Decision Making (Huchang Liao, Zeshui Xu and Mei Mei Xia)
  • Some Improved Linguistic Intuitionistic Fuzzy Aggregation Operators and Their Applications to Multiple-Attribute Decision Making (Peide Liu and Peng Wang)
  • PL-MACONT-I: A Probabilistic Linguistic MACONT-I Method for Multi-Criterion Sorting (Zhi Wen and Huchang Liao)
• Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning Applications:
  • Feature Selection with Binary Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Email Spam Detection (Hekmat Mohammadzadeh and Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh)
  • Pointer-Based Item-To-Item Collaborative Filtering Recommendation System Using a Machine Learning Model (Celestine Iwendi, Ebuka Ibeke, Harshini Eggoni, Sreerajavenkatareddy Velagala and Gautam Srivastava)
  • A Review on Human-Computer Interaction and Intelligent Robots (Fuji Ren and Yanwei Bao)
• Advanced Optimization Techniques and Applications:
  • A Novel CEEMD-Based EELM Ensemble Learning Paradigm for Crude Oil Price Forecasting (Ling Tang, Wei Dai, Lean Yu and Shouyang Wang)
  • Multi-Objective Cluster Head-Based Energy-Aware Routing Protocol Using Hybrid Woodpecker and Flamingo Search Optimization Algorithm for Internet of Things Environment (P Arivubrakan and G R Kanagachidambaresan)
  • A Concentration Ratio for Nonlinear Best Worst Method (Jafar Rezaei)
• Innovations in Multi-Critical Decision-Making:
  • A New Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method Under Neutrosophic Environment: ARAS Method with Single-Valued Neutrosophic Numbers (Esra Aytaç Adalı, Tayfun Öztaş, Abdullah Özçil, Gülin Zeynep Öztaş and Ayşegül Tuş)
  • Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Global and Local Importance Weights of Decision Criteria (Jakub Więckowski, Bartłomiej Kizielewicz, Bartosz Paradowski, Andrii Shekhovtsov and Wojciech Sałabun)
  • A New Approach Based on Multi-Dimensional Evaluation and Benchmarking for Data Hiding Techniques (B B Zaidan, A A Zaidan, H Abdul Karim and N N Ahmad)
• Strategic Decision-Making in Business:
  • Imputed Expert Decision Recommendation System for QFD-Based Omnichannel Strategy Selection for Financial Services (Gang Kou, Hasan Dinçer, Serhat Yüksel and Fahd S Alotaibi)
  • Site Selection of Car Parking with the GIS-Based Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Making (Alireza Dehghani and Ali Soltani)
  • Strategic Study for Managing the Portfolio of IT Courses Offered by a Corporate Training Company: An Approach in the Light of the ELECTRE-MOr Multicriteria Hybrid Method (Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa, Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira, Arthur Pinheiro de Araújo Costa, Luiz Frederico Horácio de Souza de Barros Teixeira, Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes and Marcos Dos Santos)
  • A Hybrid DEMATEL-TOPSIS Approach Using 2-Tuple Linguistic q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Information and Its Application in Renewable Energy Resource Selection (Sumer Naz, Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Muneeb ul Hassan and Areej Fatima)
  • An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multi-Objective Goal Programming Approach to Portfolio Selection (Gao-Feng Yu, Deng-Feng Li, De-Cui Liang and Guang-Xu Li)
• Healthcare and Public Policy Solutions:
  • Intelligent Decision-Making Framework for Evaluating and Benchmarking Hybridized Multi-Deep Transfer Learning Models: Managing COVID-19 and Beyond (M A Ahmed, Z T Al-Qaysi, A S Albahri, M E Alqaysi, Gang Kou, O S Albahri, A H Alamoodi, Suad A Albahri, Alhamzah Alnoor, Mohammed S Al-Samarraay, Rula A Hamid, Salem Garfan and Fahd S Alotaibi)
  • Novel Federated Decision Making for Distribution of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibody to Eligible High-Risk Patients (Abeer AlSereidi, Sarah Qahtan M Salih, R T Mohammed, A A Zaidan, Hassan Albayati, Dragon Pamucar, A S Albahri, B B Zaidan, Khaled Shaalan, Jameel Al-Obaidi, O S Albahri, Abdulah Alamoodi, Nazia Abdul Majid, Salem Garfan, M S Al-Samarraay, A N Jasim and M J Baqer)

Readership: Practitioners and researchers specializing in the fields of information technology and decision making.