Introduction to the Special Issue on Pattern-Driven Mining, Analytics, and Prediction for Decision Making, Part 1

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Lin Jerry Cwei ◽  
Nachiketa Sahoo ◽  
Gautam Srivastava ◽  
Weiping Ding
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Healthcare Data for Achieving a More Personalized Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease

Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Francisco Herrera-Gómez ◽  
F. Javier Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Prognostic Markers ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Personalized Treatment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Clinical Endpoints ◽  
Risk Patients

The current concept of healthcare incites a more personalized treatment of diseases. To this aim, biomarkers are needed to improve decision-making facing chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Prognostic markers provided by real-world (observational) evidence are proposed in this Special Issue entitled “Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease”, with the intention to identify high-risk patients. These markers do not target measurable parameters in patients but clinical endpoints that may be in turn transformed to benefits under the effect of future interventions.

Expanding Foresight Evaluation Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Annette L. Gardner ◽  
Peter Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

The subject of evaluating foresight work has been around for almost as long as the professional practice itself has, but the field has done little to move closer to a systematic evaluation of its work. This special issue marks the second collection of articles on that project after a special issue of Futures in 2012 (Van Der Duin and Van Der Martin 2012). This issue takes a three-part approach: Part 1: evaluation of foresight in general and evaluation approaches and methods that can support designing an appropriate evaluation; Part 2: evaluation of foresight work in organizations and its impact on long-term thinking and decision-making; and Part 3: evaluation of specific foresight activities—an undergraduate learner foresight experience and a health sector scenario development exercise. The foreword ends with a reflection on the continuing issue of foresight and evaluation.

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue: “Feature Papers of Forecasting”

Forecasting ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-137
Author(s):  
Sonia Leva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Nowadays, forecasting applications are receiving unprecedent attention thanks to their capability to improve the decision-making processes by providing useful indications.[...]

scholarly journals Climate, disaster and risk: introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s8 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Simon Goldhill ◽  
Georgie Fitzgibbon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Climate Disasters ◽  
Climate Disaster

This special issue focuses on the intersections of climate, disasters, and development. The research presented here is designed to facilitate climate-resilient decision-making, and promote sustainable development by maximising the beneficial impacts of responses to climate change and minimising negative impacts across the full spectrum of geographies and sectors that are potentially affected by the changing climate.

Some reasons why evidence from educational research is not particularly popular among (pre-service) teachers: A discussion

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Frank Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. This discussion first highlights novel aspects that the individual articles contribute to the special issue on (future) teachers' choice, use, and evaluation of (non-)scientific information sources about educational topics. Among these highlights are the conceptualizations of epistemic goals and the type of pedagogical task as moderators of the selection and use of scientific evidence. The second part raises overarching questions, including the following: How inclusive do we want the concept of evidence to be? How should teachers use research evidence in their pedagogical problem-solving and decision-making? To what extent is multidisciplinary teacher education contributing to epistemological confusion, possibly leading to (pre-service) teachers' low appreciation of educational research?

scholarly journals Civil Engineering and Symmetry

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Romualdas Bausys ◽  
and Jurgita Antucheviciene
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Optimisation Methods ◽  
Current Special Issue

A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and maintenance. Operational research, management science, and optimisation methods provide a consistent and applicable groundwork for engineering decision-making. These topics have received the interest of researchers, and, after a rigorous peer-review process, eight papers have been published in the current special issue. The articles in this issue demonstrate how solutions in civil engineering, which bring economic, social and environmental benefits, are obtained through a variety of methodologies and tools. Usually, decision-makers need to take into account not just a single criterion, but several different criteria and, therefore, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches have been suggested for application in five of the published papers; the rest of the papers apply other research methods. The methods and application case studies are shortly described further in the editorial.

scholarly journals Analysing European Union decision-making during the Eurozone crisis with new data

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Wasserfallen ◽  
Dirk Leuffen ◽  
Zdenek Kudrna ◽  
Hanno Degner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Preference Formation ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Introductory Article

The collection of articles in this special issue provides a comprehensive analysis of European Union decision-making during the Eurozone crisis. We investigate national preference formation and interstate bargaining related to major reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union. The analyses rely on the new ‘EMU Positions’ dataset. This dataset includes information about the preferences and saliences of all 28 EU member states and key EU institutions, regarding 47 contested issues negotiated between 2010 and 2015. In this introductory article, we first articulate the motivation behind this special issue and outline its collective contribution. We then briefly summarise each article within this collection; the articles analyse agenda setting, preference formation, coalition building, bargaining dynamics, and bargaining success. Finally, we present and discuss the ‘EMU Positions’ dataset.

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