The high levels of intelligence seen in humans, other primates, certain cetaceans and birds remain a major puzzle for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists. It has long been held that social interactions provide the selection pressures necessary for the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities (the 'social intelligence hypothesis'), and in recent years decision-making in t...

This Special Issue presents recent research results in the fast growing area of intelligent decision technologies (IDT) in dynamic environments. Intelligent decision making in dynamic environments can be distinguished by a number of aspects from a conventional decision making. First, due to situational changes in an operational field, time is an inherent dimension of the decision making process...

Roundabout intersections promote a continuous flow of traffic. Roundabouts entry move traffic through an intersection more quickly, and with less congestion on approaching roads. With the introduction of smart vehicles and cooperative decision-making, roundabout management shortens the waiting time and leads to a more efficient traffic without breaking the traffic laws and earning penalties. Th...

Several real problems in telecommunication, transportation, and distribution industries can be well analyzed by network flow models. In revenue management, pricing plays a primary role which increases the profit generated from a limited supply of assets. Pricing decision directly affects the amount of service or product demand. Hence, in traditional maximum flow problem, we assume that the dema...

Many decisions in organizations are made, or at least prepared, by multiple cooperating decision makers. A distributed DSS architecture is presented that connects multiple individual DSS to a group DSS. The group decisionmaking process is supported by contentoriented methods based on extensions of multiple criteria decision making methods, as well as by process-oriented techniques using a compu...

Long-term planning is a challenging process for dealing with problems in big industries. Quick and flexible process of responding to the existing variable requirements are considered in such problems. Some of important strategic decisions which should be made in this field are, namely the way that manufacturing facilities should be applied as well as assignment and design the system of delivery...

Decision making is an important issue in business and project management that assists finding the optimal alternative from a number of feasible alternatives. Decision making requires adequate consideration of uncertainty in projects. In this paper, in order to address uncertainty of project environments, interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs) are used. In other words, the rating of each alternativ...

Recent studies have argued that deficient decision making under stress is due to adoption of a hypervigilant style of decision making, which has been characterized as disorganized and inefficient. However, under the conditions that characterize many real-world or naturalistic tasks, a hypervigilant pattern of decision making may be adaptive, because the decision maker does not have the luxury o...

The paper is interdisciplinary, linking ideas from cooperative games and statistical mechanics, to decision making. Organizations and economies evolve in a process of realising potential payoffs by coalition formation in a changing landscape. Expressions are derived for the determinants of the landscape, together with a decision equation, containing potential payoffs and decision variables, tha...

& This article presents a new technology called interactive query management (IQM), designed for supporting flexible query management in decision support systems and recommender systems. IQM aims at guiding a user to refine a query to a structured repository of items when it fails to return a manageable set of products. Two failure conditions are considered here, when a query returns either too...