This article presents a rigorous simulation-based optimization framework that enables concurrent and consistent decisionmaking in building design. Analytical Target Cascading (ATC), a multi-level engineering design optimization framework, is extended to thermal and HVAC design in buildings. The framework facilitates computational decision support for meeting building performance goals, allows a...

We present a formal decision-making framework, where decisions have multiple attributes and meet goals, and preferences are defined over individual goals and sets of goals. We define decision functions to select ‘good’ decisions according to an underlying decision criteria. We also define an argumentation-based computational mechanism to compute and explain ‘good’ decisions. We draw connections...

The phenomenon of over-reliance on subjective assignment is a challenging task in the information security risk assessment process. This study deals with this problem. We have presented a group decisionmaking information security risk assessment method by combining Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with Information entropy. When AHP is used to assess the security risk of information systems, the...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that promises competitive advantages, cost savings, enhanced business processes and services, and various other benefits to enterprises. Despite the rapid technological advancement, the adoption of cloud computing is still growing slowly among small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a model to support the decisionmaking process, us...

In supply chain management process, the firm select best supplier takes the competitive advantage to other companies. Thus, supplier selection is an important issue and with the multiple criteria decisionmaking approach, the supplier selection problem includes both tangible and intangible factors. This paper is aimed to present an integrated fuzzy and linear programming approach to the problem....

There are many strategies for wayfinding strategies in the physical world and the World Wide Web (WWW). The decision processes of these strategies use various cues from the environment, such as topologic relations, information from other navigators, images of places, semantics of objects, and metric information. This paper discusses how the representation of the goal and the environment in the ...

Electrical energy is indispensable for the economic growth and well-being of humanity. However, there a growing concern with conventional method generating electricity which by burning coal other fossil fuels. In coming decades, world will experience transition to cleaner energy, away from use One clean renewable energies that getting more popular advancing in technology wind energy. Wind requi...

The present contribution contains the formalisation of a method (not based on bibliometric indicators) for assigning analytical scores to the scientific production of researchers who challenge in an open competitive exam in a Soci‐ oeconomic Scientific Sector. The preliminary decisions of the evaluation board are described subdividing them into six decision steps. The role of decisionmaking abo...

Most conventional Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms aim to optimize decisionmaking rules in terms of the expected returns. However, especially for risk management purposes, other risk-sensitive criteria such as the value-at-risk or the expected shortfall are sometimes preferred in real applications. Here, we describe a parametric method for estimating density of the returns, which allows u...

Weights of criteria are the important factors in decision-making. However, from a behavioral perspective, traditional weighting methods account for too few factors to deal with decisions properly. Based on the behavior mechanism and the theory of habitual domains, this study is undertaken to develop a new weight-assessing model that treats decisionmaking as a dynamically adjusting process proce...