Affective feedback from social robots is a useful technique for communicating to people whether they are interacting “well” with the robot or not. However, some users, such as people with physical or cognitive difficulties, may not be able to interact in ...

To provide researchers and policymakers with an in-depth understanding of COVID-19 management and insights for dealing with future pandemics, this paper examines the use of game theory in addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The advent of LLMs means that CUIs are cool again, but what isn’t so cool is that we’re doomed to use them alone. The one user, one account, one device paradigm has dominated the design of CUIs and is not going away as new conversational technologies ...

The Ecosystem Services (ES) concept encourages research into a wide range of assessment techniques that may be used for planning and landscape design projects, particularly in urban settings. Starting with their categorization, a suitable ...

It is known that, in spite of a large number of methods for numerical solutions to various classes of problems, the choice of the most efficient method for solving a particular problem under specific values of its parameters requires a large ...

Humans and machines have disparate skills, with humans exemplifying higher-level cognitive skills such as problem-solving, decision-making, and creativity. In contrast, machines have an enormous computational capacity that no human could hope to ...

Human-AI teams are becoming more and more important in decision making (DM). In this work we propose approaching Human-AI teams in DM in a similar way that we approach Human-only teams. In this respect, processes that proved to be important for ...

With the proliferation of AI, there is a growing concern regarding individuals becoming overly reliant on AI, leading to a decrease in intrinsic skills and autonomy. Assistive AI frameworks, on the other hand, also have the potential to improve human ...

In a decision-making scenario, one group member may need, independently from the other members, to choose an item, e.g., a restaurant, that will be experienced by the group. In a prior research on restaurant recommendation, we have identified two ...

In everyday life, we make decisions in groups about a variety of issues. In group decision-making, group members discuss options, exchange preferences and opinions, and make a common decision. Decision support systems and group recommender systems ...

There is a vast amount of unstructured text data generated every day analyzing and making sense of these text-based datasets is a complex, cumbersome task. The existing visualization tools that analyze text data leveraging Natural Language Processing (...

Efficient task allocation in multi-worker service environments, coupled with the necessity to adhere to strict deadlines, poses a multifaceted challenge in fields like service operations, operations management, logistics, and resource management. This ...

• Stormwater Harvesting is a best practice to alleviate pressure from freshwater resources.
• Technical and socioeconomic factors are identified to highlight stormwater harvesting sites.
• Screening criteria and public responses was ...

The urgency to protect natural water resources in a sustainable manner has risen as water scarcity and global climate change continue to worsen. Among various methods of collecting water, stormwater harvesting (SWH) is regarded as the most ...

In the dynamic landscape of technological advancements, the Digital Twin is emerging as a powerful aid with the potential to transform traditional decision-making approaches for diverse complex systems. Technically, it offers a paradigm shift in our ...

How can we infer the strategies that human participants adopt to carry out a task? One possibility, which we present and discuss here, is to develop a large number of strategies that participants could have adopted, given a cognitive architecture ...

The notion of ‘responsibility’ as a higher-level construct that dynamically impacts each agent’s goals, priorities and actions is very appealing, especially since humans regularly use such concepts in everyday reasoning. In this paper we describe ...

Occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) frequently recommend assistive technologies (ATs) to help individuals with physical impairments and disabilities in their daily activities. However, providing AT recommendations can be challenging for ...

Serious games have long been used in domains like defense, management, finance, and environmental protection to improve plans and procedures. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management organizations are ...

Neural networks are widely used due to the adaptability of models to many problems and high efficiency. These solutions are also gaining popularity in the design of Decision Support Systems. It leads to increased use of such techniques to support ...

Power Plants (PPs) is considered as critical facilities in each region because of essential role through energy generation processes. These facilities are also depended to water availability especially in water stress areas. Due to the critical ...