Special Issue on Decision Making in Heterogeneous Network Data Scenarios and Applications

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Decision making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help customers make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives. Traditionally, decision making has been investigated in recommendation in social networks, autonomous operations in multi-agent environments, production planning and scheduling in manufacturing systems, patients’ care and treatment in emergency department management in hospitals. However, nowadays, the data used for decision making analysis is often linked and it is in the form of heterogeneity. These heterogeneous relationships may be implicit and cannot be directly processed using the traditional approaches. Therefore, this special issue will establish an emerging forum to attract high-quality research submissions and solve the new challenges of making smart decisions in heterogeneous network scenarios and applications. …