The aim of this article is to articulate and critically discuss different answers the following question: How should decision-makers deal with conflicts that arise when values usually entailed in ethical guidelines – such as accuracy, privacy, non-discrimination transparency for use Artificial Intelligence (e.g. algorithm-based sentencing) clash one another? To begin with, I focus on clarifying...

Financial evaluation of listed companies is realized by taking debt paying ability, profitability and operation ability as evaluation standards with the aim of investigating financial situations of companies comprehensively and systematically. The paper puts forward an improved TOPSIS decision-making method. In this method, opinions of more subjective policy makers have been involved: decision ...

The European Nations foresee a growing population and a trending urbanization that pose significant environmental and social concerns. To manage these concerns municipal decision makers’ attempt to leverage the smart city concept with collaboration between external actors as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city. By developing a framework based on existing literature ...

While the philosophical literature has extensively studied how decisions relate to arguments, reasons and justifications, decision theory almost entirely ignores the latter notions and rather focuses on preference and belief. In this article, we argue that decision theory can largely benefit from explicitly taking into account the stance that decision-makers take towards arguments and counter-a...

the decision to buy, sell, design and construct residential apartments is a complex process due to a combination of multiplequalitative and quantitative factors. it thus requires a great deal of costs and time for decision makers in this market. identifying these factors and determining the priority of them are importance for selectingan apartment. the aim of current research is to identify the...

disciplined inquiry about problems of organization and management requires decision to be taken about an appropriate research deign. in making such a decision, the researcher tacitly assumes a philosophical point of view or a research paradigm. there are four research paradigms which are the basis for the selection of research methodology and research methods. these paradigms include: a) positi...