Advances in Decision Making for Complex Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Management systems today are becoming increasingly complex, with many of these systems involving decision making made by one decision maker or several. Many real-life problems, such as problems from engineering, energy, medicine, agriculture, manufacturing and various industries, have a multi-criteria character in that they are problems in which decision makers must make a choice among several alternatives. In order to solve these issues surrounding decision making, decision-making tools were developed. Multi-criteria decision making is a valuable tool that can be applied for solving many complex multi-criteria decision problems. Some of the approaches for solving multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems include multi-attribute decision making (MADM) methods and multi-objective decision making (MODM) optimization methods. Many decisions involve dealing with uncertainty, incompleteness, imprecise information and ambiguity surrounding multisource information. The availability of big data underlines the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) to help in decision making. AI developments for decision making represent a challenge for research in the AI field. This Special Issue is devoted to the development of new methods and applications in the areas of decision making for complex systems. We invite authors to contribute their high-quality, original research papers and review articles in the domain of decision-making tools and applications. We welcome papers that present new methods or a combination of methods, case studies, decision support systems and comprehensive reviews. We also welcome survey papers that provide valuable references on advances in decision making, new developments in multi-criteria methods and applications that solve various decision-making problems in complex systems.

Dr. Constanta Zoie Radulescu
Guest Editor

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• decision making and group decision making for complex systems
• advanced in multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) for complex systems
• multi-objective optimization
• multi-criteria methods and applications
• decision making under uncertainty
• group decision making
• fuzzy decision making
• optimization methods and applications for decision making
• computing and software for MCDM
• decision support systems
• modelling and optimization of complex systems
• artificial intelligence in decision making
• preference modelling risk and uncertainty
• weighting methods
• hybrid decision-making methods
• intelligent decision