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Intelligent Decision Technologies

An International Journal

Impact Factor
2023
1.0
CiteScore
2023
1.4

Volume

17, 4 issues

Latest issue

18:1 online 20 February 2024

Next issue

18:2 scheduled for May 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2007

ISSN print

1872-4981

ISSN online

1875-8843

Aims & Scope

A refereed international scholarly journal, Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) welcomes original research contributions on the fundamental concepts and applications of intelligent systems that support decision making. Manuscripts are published on such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, fuzzy techniques, genetic algorithms, intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, cognitive science, mathematical modeling, neural systems/neural networks, computer-supported cooperative work, geographic information systems, user interface management systems, informatics, knowledge representation, applications of intelligent systems and others.

The field of intelligent decision technologies is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging computer science with its development of artificial intelligence, information systems with its development of decision support systems, and engineering with its development of systems. IDT seeks to attract research that is focused on applied technology while exploring its development at a fundamental level. IDT seeks an interchange of research on intelligent systems and intelligent technologies which enhance or improve decision-making in industry, government and academia. IDT publishes research on all aspects of intelligent decision technologies, from fundamental development to the applied system. The journal is concerned with theory, design, development, implementation, testing and evaluation of intelligent decision systems that have the potential to support decision making in the areas of management, international business, finance, accounting, marketing, healthcare, military applications, production, networks, traffic management, crisis response, human interfaces and other applied fields.

The target audience is researchers in computer science, business, commerce, health science, management, engineering and information systems that develop and apply intelligent decision technologies. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. George A. Tsihrintzis
Department of Informatics
University of Piraeus

Piraeus 185 34, Greece
Email: gatsihrintzis@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Information Systems and Operations Management
The Sellinger School of Business and Management
Loyola University Maryland

4501 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
Email: gwren@loyola.edu

Prof. Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain
Founder KES International
PO Box 243
Selby Y08 1DS, UK
Email: jainlc2002@yahoo.co.uk

and

Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics
University of Canberra
Canberra, ACT 2601, United Kingdom

Honorary Editor

Dr. Robert Howlett
KES International
United Kingdom

Assistant to the Editor

Dimitrios P. Panagoulias
Department of Informatics
University of Piraeus, Greece

Associate Editors

Dr. Leonidas Akritidis
School of Science and Technology
International Hellenic University Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: lakritidis@ihu.gr

Prof. Dr. Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Email: malamani@purdue.edu

Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics
Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Romania
Email: balas@drbalas.ro

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Habil. Smaranda Belciug
Department of Computer Science
University of Craiova, Romania
E-mail: sbelciug@inf.ucv.ro

Prof. Dr. Sheryl Brahnam
Computer Information Systems
Missouri State University, USA
Email: sbrahnam@missouristate.edu

Prof. Dr. Anna Esposito
Second University of Naples, Italy
Email: anna.esposito@unina2.it

Prof. Margarita Favorskaya
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia
Email: favorskaya@mail.sibsau.ru

Dr. Steven Fernandes
Creighton University, USA
Email: StevenFernandes@creighton.edu

Dr. Deepak Gupta
Computer Science and Engineering
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, India
Email: deepakgupta@mait.ac.in

Prof. Dr. Mirjana Ivanovic
Faculty of Science
Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Chair of Computer Science
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Email: mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs

Dr. Farah Jemili
MARS Lab., ISITCom
University of Sousse, Tunisia
E-mail: jmili_farah@yahoo.fr

Prof. Dr. Nikos Karacapilidis
University of Patras, Greece
Email: karacap@upatras.gr

Prof. Dr. Fumihiro Kumeno
Department of Information Technology and Media Design
Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan
Email: kumeno@nit.ac.jp

Prof. Dr. Vangelis Marinakis
Decision Support Systems Lab
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Email: vmarinakis@epu.ntua.gr

Prof. Dr. Manuel Mora
Information Systems Department
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Email: mmora@correo.uaa.mx

Dr. Achyut Shankar
University of Warwick, UK
Email: ashankar2711@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Milan Simic
Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Bundoora Campus, RMIT University, Australia
Email: milan.simic@rmit.edu.au

Prof. Dr. Vassilios Verykios
School of Science and Technology
Hellenic Open University, Greece
Email: verykios@eap.gr

Prof. Dr. Guiwu Wei
School of Business
Sichuan Normal University, China
Email: weiguiwu@163.com

Dr. Sergey Zykov
Faculty of Computer Science
Department of Software Engineering
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics', Russia
Email: szykov@hse.ru

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Animesh Adhikari
Department of Computer Science
Parvatibai Chowgule College, India
Email: animeshadhikari@yahoo.com

Prof. Dr. William Chu
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Tunghai University, Taiwan
Email: cchu@thu.edu.tw

Prof. Philippe De Wilde
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot Watt University, UK
Email: p.de_wilde@hw.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. Roumen Kountchev
Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies
Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Email: rkountch@tu-sofia.bg

Prof. Ignac Lovrek, Ph.D.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Email: ignac.lovrek@fer.hr

Prof. Ivan Luković
Faculty of Technical Sciences
Computing and Control Department, Chair for Applied Computer Science
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Email: ivan@uns.ac.rs

Prof. Dr. Vasile Palade
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Coventry University, UK
Email: vasile.palade@coventry.ac.uk

Prof. James F. Peters
Computational Intelligence Laboratory
ECE Department University of Manitoba, Canada
Email: james.peters3@ad.umanitoba.ca

Prof. Dharmendra Sharma
Faculty of Education, Science
Technology & MathematicsUniversity of Canberra, Australia
Email: Dharmendra.Sharma@canberra.edu.au

Prof. Barry G. Silverman
Professor of Systems Science and Engineering
Hayden Hall (Room 120), University of Pennsylvania, USA
Email: BaSil@seas.upenn.edu

Prof. Gheorghe Tecuci
Learning Agents Center
The Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University, USA
Email: tecuci@gmu.edu

Prof. Dr. Eiji Uchino
Mathematics and Complex Systems Science
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Email: uchino@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Prof. Maria Virvou
Department of Informatics
University of Piraeus, Greece
Email: mvirvou@unipi.gr

Prof. Hiro Yoshida
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Email: Yoshida.Hiro@mgh.harvard.edu

Editorial Board

Jair M. Abe
University of São Paulo
Brazil

Canicious Abeynayake
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Australia

Fred Adam
University College Cork
Ireland

Bala M. Balachandran
University of Canberra
Australia

Marius M. Balas
"Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad
Romania

Monica Bianchini
University of Siena
Italy

Isabelle Bichindaritz
SUNY Oswego
USA

Gloria Bordogna
CNR - IDPA
Italy

Ana Rita Campos
UNINOVA
Portugal

Maria do Carmo Nicoletti
UFSCar (Federal University of São Carlos)
Brazil

Barbara Catania
University of Genoa
Italy

Mihaela Costin
Institute of Computer Science Iasi Romanian Academy
Romania

Ireneusz Czarnowski
Gdynia Maritime University
Poland

Arthur Filippidis
DSTO
Australia

Maria Ganzha
University of Gdańsk
Poland

Petia Georgieva
Informatics University of Aveiro
Portugal

Anne Håkansson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden

Alex Hariz
University of South Australia
Australia

D. Jude Hemanth
Karunya University
India

D.E. Holmes
UCSB
USA

Arturas Kaklauskas
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Lithuania

Anastasia N. Kastania
Athens University of Economics and Business
Greece

Boris Kovalerchuk
Central Washington University
USA

Rosa Meo
University of Turin
Italy

Lyudmila Mihaylova
University of Sheffield
UK

Manuel Mora
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Mexico

Stefania Montani
University of Eastern Piedmont
Italy

Kazumi Nakamatsu
University of Hyogo
Japan

Zorica Nedic
University of South Australia
Australia

Viorel Nicolau
Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
Romania

Vasile Palade
University of Oxford
UK

Gabriella Pasi
University of Milan-Bicocca
Italy

Nilesh Patel
Oakland University
USA

Camelia Pintea
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania

Jens Pohl
California Polytechnic State University
USA

Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin
Lumina University
Romania

Dan Power
University of Northern Iowa
USA

Lucian Prodan
Polytechnic University of Timisoara
Romania

Gabriela Prostean
Polytechnic University of Timisoara
Romania

Roy Rada
University of Maryland Baltimore
USA

Ana Respício
University of Lisbon
Portugal

Christos Sioutis
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Australia

Urszula Stańczyk
Silesian University of Technology
Poland

Jeff Tweedale
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Australia

Snejana Yordanova
Technical University of Sofia
Bulgaria

Pascale Zaraté
University of Tolouse
France

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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT

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Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to the journal's peer review management system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/idt/default2.aspx

Contact one of the Editors-in-Chief if you need help.

Prof. Dr. George A. Tsihrintzis
Email: gatsihrintzis@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Email: gwren@loyola.edu

Prof. L. C. Jain
Email: jainlakhmi@gmail.com

Prof. Junzo Watada
Email: junzo.watada@gmail.com

Required files for final submissions
After the article has been accepted, the authors should submit the final version as source files, including a word processor file of the text, such as Word or LateX (If using LaTeX, please use the standard article.sty as a style file and also send a PDF version of the LaTeX file).

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PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Organization of the paper and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to consult a professional English language editing service or a native English speaker prior to submission.

Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.

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  • Keywords
  • Tables
    Number as Table 1, Table 2 etc, and refer to all of them in the text.

    Each table should be provided on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should not be included in the text.

    Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.

    Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.

    Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.

    Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.

    REFERENCES

    Authors are requested to use the Vancouver citation style. Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references at the end of the manuscript. List the references in the order in which they appear in the text. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed as (author(s), unpublished data). If an article has a DOI, this should be provided after the page number details. The number is added after the letters 'doi'. Manuscripts will not be considered if they do not conform to the Vancouver citation guidelines.

    References must be listed in Vancouver style:
    [1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002; 935(12): 406.
    [2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
    [3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
    [4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93113.
    [5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.

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  • Originality, novelty and significance of results
  • Technical quality of work
  • Comprehensibility and presentation of the paper
  • Overall impression
  • Based on the received reviews the handling editor will propose to the Editors-in-Chief a recommendation:

  • Accept
  • Minor revisions required
  • Major revisions required
  • Revise and resubmit
  • Reject
  • They mean the following:

  • Accept: The manuscript is suitable for publication and only requires minor polishing; thus, no further reviews are requested.
  • Minor revisions required: The authors are required to make moderate changes to their manuscript. The manuscript becomes acceptable for publication if the changes proposed by the reviewers and editors are successfully addressed. The revised manuscript will be examined by the Editors-in-Chief and possibly sent back to all (or a selection of) reviewers for a second round of reviews. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
  • Major revisions required: The manuscript cannot be accepted for publication in its current form. However, a major revision which addresses all issues raised by the reviewers may be acceptable for publication. The revised manuscript will undergo a full second round of review. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
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