Introduction to Advances in Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Decision Support Systems

Contemporary Decision Support Systems increasingly incorporate Artificial Intelligence technologies, enhancing their trustworthiness and robustness of autonomy and expanding their applicability across various new domains. These Artificial Intelligence-empowered approaches prove to be very effective and include: (1) Intelligent decision-making systems, in which expertise, knowledge, and Artificial Intelligence are integrated, (2) Decision support via tailored recommendations that provide personalized and group recommender systems, (3) Dynamic decision support to address limited and imbalanced data, (4) Transparent and ethical decision support, ensuring explainability, trust, and responsibility, and (5) Novel Software Engineering, verification and evaluation methodologies. The book at hand aims at exposing its readers to some of the most significant recent advances in Artificial Intelligence-empowered Decision Support Systems, while at the same time honouring Professor John E. Psarras, a world-renowned researcher in this area. The book is directed towards professors, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in all Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems disciplines. It is also directed towards readers who come from other disciplines and are interested in becoming versed in some of the most recent Artificial Intelligence technologies as they empower Decision Support Systems. An extensive list of bibliographic references at the end of each chapter guides its readers to probe further into the application areas of interest to them.