In the supply chain modeling context, the agent-based model aims to represent not only each node, but also the information sharing process among these nodes. Despite the complexity of the configuration, the agent-based model can be applied straightforwardly to support the collaborative planning process. This allows the parties to achieve common goals effectively. Thus by sharing accurate, actio...

The classical multi-armed bandit (MAB) framework studies the exploration-exploitation dilemma of decisionmaking problem and always treats arm with highest expected reward as optimal choice. However, in some applications, an a high can be risky to play if variance is high. Hence, variation should considered make arm-selection process risk-aware. In this letter, mean-variance metric investigated ...

People who suffer from Diabetes are required to make frequent decisions on their personal treatment based on results from glucose monitors. Yet the results returned from the devices form only a part of the decisionmaking process. We seek to understand the role that glucose monitors have in patient’s management practices and how technology could support patients’ management further. From a serie...

The performance assessment of professional baseball starting pitchers is considered a multi-attribute decisionmaking (MADM) problem. This study develops an evaluation model based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) to evaluate starting pitcher performance for teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The AHP is used to determine attribute weights,...

EU climate policy is based on GHG emissions reduction (mitigation), coupled with measures aimed at responding efficiently to the unavoidable consequences of climate change (adaptation). However, as the European Commission recently stated in its Green Paper on adaptation in Europe, there is still a need to develop an overall EU adaptation strategy. Moreover, such a strategy should take into cons...

The decision to forgo life-sustaining treatment is made for 20–55% of terminally ill children in North American and European pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) [1–3]. The management of children at the end of life (EOL) can be divided into three steps. The first concerns the decisionmaking process. The second concerns the actions taken once a decision has been made to forgo life-sustaining t...

For a commercial company it is very important to be able to transfer relevant information to corporate knowledge. Therefore, a new concept must support and manage the information-to-knowledge and the knowledge-to-information cycle by using trustworthy knowledge repositories and personalised retrieval systems. The xFIND system represents an approach to a future-oriented knowledge system, which s...

Data-based decisionmaking must account for the manipulation of data by agents who are aware how decisions being made and want to affect their allocations. We study a framework in which, due such manipulation, becomes less informative when depend more strongly on data. formalize why decisionmaker should commit underutilizing Doing so attenuates information loss thereby improves allocation accura...