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Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a widely used tool to support decisions in which a set of alternatives should be ranked or classified based on multiple criteria. Recent studies in MCDA have shown the relevance of considering not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Betania Silva Carneiro Campello , Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte , João Marcos Travassos Romano

Treatment planning in radiotherapy is inherently a multi-criteria optimization (MCO) problem. Traditionally, the treatment's robustness is not formulated as a part of this decision making problem, but dealt with separately through margins…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Remo Cristoforetti , Philipp Süss , Tobias Becher , Niklas Wahl

Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) is used to rank alternatives based on various criteria. Key MCA methods, such as Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods, estimate parameters for criteria to compute the performance of each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu , Su-Chuan Shih

Moment-based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides an optimization framework to integrate statistical information with traditional optimization approaches. Under this framework, one assumes that the underlying joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Shiyi Jiang , Jianqiang Cheng , Kai Pan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

This review describes recent advances by the authors and others on the topic of incorporating experimental data into molecular simulations through maximum entropy methods. Methods which incorporate experimental data improve accuracy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dilnoza B. Amirkulova , Andrew D. White

GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is a well-known decision support tool that can be used in a wide variety of contexts. It is particularly useful for territorial planning in situations where several actors with different, and…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-07 Olivier Billaud , Maxence Soubeyrand , Sandra Luque , Maxime Lenormand

Because the appropriate combination of existing elements and establishing coordination between them as a consequence of making the right decision to accomplish the intended objective is achieved, management is now one of the main pillars of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Hamid Babaei , Shabnam Mohammadi , Hossein Ghaneai

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown that reasoning ability can be significantly enhanced through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as the de…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jingyu Zhou , Lu Ma , Hao Liang , Chengyu Shen , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have progressed significantly in recent decades, but most of them are designed to solve unconstrained multi-objective optimization problems. In fact, many real-world multi-objective problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Hui Li , Caimin Wei , Qingfu Zhang , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik D. Goodman

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is extensively used across diverse industries to assess and rank alternatives. Among numerous MCDA methods developed to solve real-world ranking problems, TOPSIS remains one of the most popular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Robert Susmaga , Izabela Szczech , Dariusz Brzezinski

Stochastic and soft optimal policies resulting from entropy-regularized Markov decision processes (ER-MDP) are desirable for exploration and imitation learning applications. Motivated by the fact that such policies are sensitive with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Tien Mai , Patrick Jaillet

We consider distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems, reformulated as distributionally robust feasibility (DRF) problems, with multiple expectation constraints. We propose a generic stochastic first-order meta-algorithm, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Hyungki Im , Paul Grigas

In critical care settings such as the Intensive Care Unit, clinicians face the complex challenge of balancing conflicting objectives, primarily maximizing patient survival while minimizing resource utilization (e.g., length of stay).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Aryaman Bansal , Divya Sharma

The Best-Worst Method (BWM) has emerged as a prominent multi-criteria decision-making method for determining the weights of the decision criteria. Among various BWM models, this research focuses on the linear model of the BWM. This model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Harshit M. Ratandhara , Mohit Kumar

This study investigates the applicability of 3D dose predictions from a model trained on one modality to a cross-modality automated planning workflow. Additionally, we explore the impact of integrating a multi-criteria optimizer on adapting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Gregory Szalkowski , Xuanang Xu , Shiva Das , Pew-Thian Yap , Jun Lian

In this study, we propose a multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) algorithm under uncertainty where data is collected as intervals. The proposed MCGDM algorithm aggregates the data, determines the optimal weights for criteria and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Hadi A. Khorshidi , Uwe Aickelin

A number of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods have been developed to rank alternatives based on several decision criteria. Usually, MCDA methods deal with the criteria value at the time the decision is made without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Betania S. C. Campello , Leonardo T. Duarte , João M. T. Romano

Analyses in high energy physics aim to put the Standard Model---the commonly accepted theory---to test. For convincing conclusions, analysis methods are needed which offer an unambiguous comparison between data and theory while allowing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-19 Till Martini

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are a powerful tool for studying matter at the atomic scale. However, to simulate solids, an initial atomic structure is crucial for the successful execution of MD simulations, but can be difficult to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Lars Dammann , Richard Kohns , Patrick Huber , Robert H. Meißner

We introduce a method for explaining the results of various linear and hierarchical multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques such as WSM and AHP. The two key ideas are (A) to maintain a fine-grained representation of the values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Martin Erwig , Prashant Kumar