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Advanced Decision Support and Recommender Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1000

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Interests: supply chain management; supply chain simulation; system logistics and system dynamics modeling
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Dear Colleagues,

A Decision Support System (DSS) is an information system that supports stakeholders in selecting responses to different alternatives. A DSS can aid human cognitive deficiencies by integrating various sources of information, providing intelligent access to relevant knowledge, and aiding the process of structuring decisions. Recommendation Systems (RSs) help users filter a large amount of information and generate a list of personalized suggestions to make more accurate decisions about their preferences. Both systems help in decision making and have been applied in different sectors, such as business, engineering, logistics, e-commerce, health, finances, government, and energy.

This Special Issue on “Advanced Decision Support and Recommender Systems” welcomes submissions of recent research work on this promising application area. The call is open to a broad thematic range of papers covering the recent applications and trends in Artificial Intelligence Techniques on DSS, Modeling and Simulation on DSS, Decision Support Systems for Industry 4.0 and 5.0, efficient trajectory and route recommender systems, innovative user interfaces for LLM-based Recommender Systems, evaluation of LLM-based Recommender Systems, and others.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Social network analysis for decision making;
  • Design of soft computing techniques on DSS;
  • Implementation of big data analytics on DSS;
  • Advances in machine learning-based techniques for DSS;
  • Applications of intelligent decision support systems in the industry;
  • Impact of DSS on industrial performance;
  • Economic impact of DSS on the industry;
  • Strategic decision support systems in the supply chain;
  • Operation research applied to the industry;
  • Distributed and parallel data processing for location-based recommender systems;
  • Big spatiotemporal data management and analytic platforms for recommender systems;
  • Measurements and characterization of innovative context-aware recommender-system applications;
  • Data-driven solutions for location-based recommender system;
  • Multi-modal recommendation with LLMs;
  • Scalability and efficiency of LLM-based recommender systems;
  • Real-world deployments of LLMs in recommender systems.

Prof. Dr. Cuauhtémoc Sánchez Ramírez
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • social network analysis
  • big data analytics
  • decision support system
  • recommender systems

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Enhancing User Acceptance of an AI Agent’s Recommendation in Information-Sharing Environments
by Rebecca Kehat, Ron S. Hirschprung and Shani Alkoby
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(17), 7874; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177874 - 4 Sep 2024
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Information sharing (IS) occurs in almost every action daily. IS holds benefits for its users, but it is also a source of privacy violations and costs. Human users struggle to balance this trade-off. This reality calls for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based agent assistance that [...] Read more.
Information sharing (IS) occurs in almost every action daily. IS holds benefits for its users, but it is also a source of privacy violations and costs. Human users struggle to balance this trade-off. This reality calls for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based agent assistance that surpasses humans’ bottom-line utility, as shown in previous research. However, convincing an individual to follow an AI agent’s recommendation is not trivial; therefore, this research’s goal is establishing trust in machines. Based on the Design of Experiments (DOE) approach, we developed a methodology that optimizes the user interface (UI) with a target function of maximizing the acceptance of the AI agent’s recommendation. To empirically demonstrate our methodology, we conducted an experiment with eight UI factors and n = 64 human participants, acting in a Facebook simulator environment, and accompanied by an AI agent assistant. We show how the methodology can be applied to enhance AI agent user acceptance on IS platforms by selecting the proper UI. Additionally, due to its versatility, this approach has the potential to optimize user acceptance in multiple domains as well. Full article
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Title: Literature Review of Recommender Systems Applications
Author: Alfaifi
Highlights: - A literature review of recommender systems (RSs) and their applications. - Data in (input) and features (output) of RSs applications - Challenges of RSs applications - A summary of RSs applications studies and their references classified into different domains.

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