Uncertainty is inevitable in the decision-making process of real applications. Quantum
mechanics has become an interesting and popular topic in predicting and explaining human …

Inappropriate maintenance and rehabilitation strategies cause many problems such as
maintenance budget waste, ineffective pavement distress treatments, and so forth. A method …

Portfolio optimization is an essential and practical model for financial decision making. With
the consideration of some real-world constraints, especially the cardinality constraints, the …

Abstract Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a methodology that has been classically
used to rank alternatives according to a set of decision criteria. The MCDA techniques have …

This paper aims at presenting a new decision framework under an interval-valued
probabilistic hesitant fuzzy set (IVPHFS) context with fully unknown weight information. At …

Human-centered systems of systems, such as social networks, the Internet of Things, or
healthcare systems are growingly becoming significant facets of modern life. Realistic …

Mobile crowdsourcing has emerged as a promising collaboration paradigm in which each
spatial task requires a set of mobile workers in near vicinity to the target location …

Classic portfolio selection problems mainly focus on high-risk financial markets with
tradeoffs between returns and risk. However, more risk-averse investors pursue long-term …

Performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis in complex cyber–
physical systems (CPSs) are often highly intractable due to widely diverse operational …

Engineering design is traditionally performed by hand: an expert makes design proposals
based on past experience, and these proposals are then tested for compliance with certain …