Information management is a common paradigm in modern decision-making. A wide range of decision-making techniques have been proposed in the literature to model complex business and engineering ...processes. In this Special Issue, 16 selected and peer-reviewed original research articles contribute to business information management in various current real-world problems by proposing crisp or uncertain multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models and techniques, mostly including multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches, in addition to a single paper proposing an interactive multi-objective decision-making (MODM) approach. Particular attention is devoted to information aggregation operators—65% of papers dealt with this item. The topics of this Special Issue gained attention in Europe and Asia. A total of 48 authors from seven countries contributed to this Issue. The papers are mainly concentrated in three application areas: supplier selection and rational order allocation, the evaluation and selection of goods or facilities, and personnel selection/partner selection. A number of new approaches are proposed that are expected to attract great interest from the research community.
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is all about making choices in the presence of multiple conflicting criteria. MCDM has become one of the most important and fastest growing subfields of ...Operations Research/Management Science. As modern MCDM started to emerge about 50 years ago, it is now a good time to take stock of developments. This book aims to present an informal, nontechnical history of MCDM, supplemented with many pictures. It covers the major developments in MCDM, from early history until now. It also covers fascinating discoveries by Nobel Laureates and other prominent scholars.
Manufacturing is the backbone of any industrialized nation. Recent worldwide advances in manufacturing technologies have brought about a metamorphism in the industry. Fast-changing technologies on ...the product front have created a need for an equally fast response from manufacturing industries. To meet these challenges, manufacturing industries have to select appropriate manufacturing strategies, product designs, manufacturing processes, work piece and tool materials, and machinery and equipment. The selection decisions are complex as decision making is more challenging today. Decision makers in the manufacturing sector frequently face the problem of assessing a wide range of options and selecting one based on a set of conflicting criteria. Decision Making in the Manufacturing Environment demonstrates how graph theory and matrix approach, and fuzzy multiple attribute decision making methods can be effectively used for decision making in various situations of the manufacturing environment. Divided into two parts, Part I introduces the decision making situations in the manufacturing environment and presents decision making methods, Part II uses case studies to present the applications of these methods in real manufacturing situations. Decision Making in the Manufacturing Environment will be very useful to decision makers in the manufacturing sector as it makes decision making easier, more logical, systematic, efficient and effective. It is intended for designers, manufacturing engineers, practitioners, managers, institutes involved in design and manufacturing related projects, applied research workers, academics, and graduate students in mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering.
Decision making in the renewable energy industry involves an increasingly complex constellation of factors and a growing range of input. This volume shows how multi-criteria techniques provide ...decision makers with a valuable and inclusive methodology.
Neutrosophy (1995) is a new branch of philosophy that studies triads of the form (, A>, A>), where is an entity {i.e. element, concept, idea, theory, logical proposition, etc.}, A> is the opposite of ..., while A> is the neutral (or indeterminate) between them, i.e., neither nor A>. See http://fs.gallup.unm.edu/neutrosophy.htm. Based on neutrosophy, the neutrosophic triplets were founded, which have a similar form (x, neut(x), anti(x), that satisfy some axioms, for each element x in a given set.
This Special Issue gathers original research papers that report on state-of-the-art and recent advancements of neutrosophic triplets, neutrosophic duplets, neutrosophic multisets and their algebraic structures – that have been defined recently in 2016, but have gained interest from world researchers, and several papers have been published in first rank international journals.
Neutrosophy (1995) is a new branch of philosophy that studies triads of the form (,, ), where is an entity {i.e. element, concept, idea, theory, logical proposition, etc.}, is the opposite of, while ...is the neutral (or indeterminate) between them, i.e., neither nor.
Based on neutrosophy, the neutrosophic triplets were founded, which have a similar form (x, neut(x), anti(x)), that satisfy several axioms, for each element x in a given set.
This collective book presents original research papers by many neutrosophic researchers from around the world, that report on the state-of-the-art and recent advancements of neutrosophic triplets, neutrosophic duplets, neutrosophic multisets and their algebraic structures - that have been defined recently in 2016 but have gained interest from world researchers.
Connections between classical algebraic structures and neutrosophic triplet / duplet / multiset structures are also studied.
And numerous neutrosophic applications in various fields, such as: multi-criteria decision making, image segmentation, medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis, clustering data, neutrosophic probability, human resource management, strategic planning, forecasting model, multi-granulation, supplier selection problems, typhoon disaster evaluation, skin lesson detection, mining algorithm for big data analysis, etc.
Shared decision‐making is appropriate for clinical decisions involving multiple reasonable options, which occur frequently in the cardiovascular care of older adults. The process includes the ...communication of relevant factual information between the patient and the clinician, elicitation of patient preferences, and a mutual agreement on the best course of action to meet the patient's personal goals. For older adults, there are common challenges and considerations with regard to shared decision‐making, some of which (eg, cognitive impairment) may be biologically linked to cardiovascular disease. There are tools designed to facilitate the shared decision‐making process, known as decision aids, which are broadly effective although have shortcomings when applied to older adults. Novel approaches in clinical research and health systems changes will go some way toward improving shared decision‐making for older adults, but the greatest scope for improvement may be within the grass roots areas of communication skills, interdisciplinary teamwork, and simply asking our patients what matters most.
Blind spots Bazerman, Max H; Tenbrunsel, Ann E
2011., 20110301, 2011, 2011-03-01, 20110101
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When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max ...Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be.
Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents when those decisions affect no one other than ...themselves. Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear witness to the intrinsic value of persons. In this book, Sarah Conly rejects the idea of autonomy as inviolable. Drawing on sources from behavioural economics and social psychology, she argues that we are so often irrational in making our decisions that our autonomous choices often undercut the achievement of our own goals. Thus in many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions. Her argument challenges widely held views of moral agency, democratic values and the public/private distinction, and will interest readers in ethics, political philosophy, political theory and philosophy of law.
Aims and objectives
To identify and summarise factors and processes related to registered nurses’ patient care decision‐making in medical–surgical environments. A secondary goal of this literature ...review was to determine whether medical–surgical decision‐making literature included factors that appeared to be similar to concepts and factors in naturalistic decision making (NDM).
Background
Decision‐making in acute care nursing requires an evaluation of many complex factors. While decision‐making research in acute care nursing is prevalent, errors in decision‐making continue to lead to poor patient outcomes. Naturalistic decision making may provide a framework for further exploring decision‐making in acute care nursing practice. A better understanding of the literature is needed to guide future research to more effectively support acute care nurse decision‐making.
Design
PubMed and CINAHL databases were searched, and research meeting criteria was included. Data were identified from all included articles, and themes were developed based on these data.
Results
Key findings in this review include nursing experience and associated factors; organisation and unit culture influences on decision‐making; education; understanding patient status; situation awareness; and autonomy.
Conclusions
Acute care nurses employ a variety of decision‐making factors and processes and informally identify experienced nurses to be important resources for decision‐making. Incorporation of evidence into acute care nursing practice continues to be a struggle for acute care nurses. This review indicates that naturalistic decision making may be applicable to decision‐making nursing research.
Relevance to clinical practice
Experienced nurses bring a broad range of previous patient encounters to their practice influencing their intuitive, unconscious processes which facilitates decision‐making. Using naturalistic decision making as a conceptual framework to guide research may help with understanding how to better support less experienced nurses’ decision‐making for enhanced patient outcomes.
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