Decision sciences (DSC) involves studying complex dynamic systems and processes to aid informed choices subject to constraints in uncertain conditions. It integrates multidisciplinary methods and strategies to evaluate decision engineering processes, identifying alternatives and providing insights toward enhancing prudent decision-making. This study analyzes the evolutionary trends and innovation in DSC education and research trends over the past 25 years. Using metadata from bibliographic records and employing the science mapping method and text analytics, we map and evaluate the thematic, intellectual, and social structures of DSC research. The results identify "knowledge management," "decision support systems," "data envelopment analysis," "simulation," and "artificial intelligence" (AI) as some of the prominent critical skills and knowledge requirements for problem-solving in DSC before and during the period (2000-2024). However, these technologies are evolving significantly in the recent wave of digital transformation, with data analytics frameworks (including techniques such as big data analytics, machine learning, business intelligence, data mining, and information visualization) becoming crucial. DSC education and research continue to mirror the development in practice, with sustainable education through virtual/online learning becoming prominent. Innovative pedagogical approaches/strategies also include computer simulation and games ("play and learn" or "role-playing"). The current era witnesses AI adoption in different forms as conversational Chatbot agent and generative AI (GenAI), such as chat generative pretrained transformer in teaching, learning, and scholarly activities amidst challenges (academic integrity, plagiarism, intellectual property violations, and other ethical and legal issues). Future DSC education must innovatively integrate GenAI into DSC education and address the resulting challenges.

Cloud resource scheduling is one of the most significant tasks in the field of big data, which is a combinatorial optimization problem in essence. Scheduling strategies based on meta-heuristic algorithms (MAs) are often chosen to deal with this topic. However, MAs are prone to falling into local optima leading to decreasing quality of the allocation scheme. Algorithms with good global search ability are needed to map available cloud resources to the requirements of the task. Honey Badger Algorithm (HBA) is a newly proposed algorithm with strong search ability. In order to further improve scheduling performance, an Improved Honey Badger Algorithm (IHBA), which combines two local search strategies and a new fitness function, is proposed in this article. IHBA is compared with 6 MAs in four scale load tasks. The comparative simulation results obtained reveal that the proposed algorithm performs better than other algorithms involved in the article. IHBA enhances the diversity of algorithm populations, expands the individual's random search range, and prevents the algorithm from falling into local optima while effectively achieving resource load balancing.

The demand for intensive care units (ICUs) is steadily increasing, yet there is a relative shortage of medical staff to meet this need. Intensive care work is inherently heavy and stressful, highlighting the importance of optimizing these units' working conditions and processes. Such optimization is crucial for enhancing work efficiency and elevating the level of diagnosis and treatment provided in ICUs. The intelligent ICU concept represents a novel ward management model that has emerged through advancements in modern science and technology. This includes communication technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data analytics. By leveraging these technologies, the intelligent ICU aims to significantly reduce potential risks associated with human error and improve patient monitoring and treatment outcomes. Deep learning (DL) and IoT technologies have huge potential to revolutionize the surveillance of patients in the ICUs due to the critical and complex nature of their conditions. This article provides an overview of the most recent research and applications of linical data for critically ill patients, with a focus on the execution of AI. In the ICU, seamless and continuous monitoring is critical, as even little delays in patient care decision-making can result in irreparable repercussions or death. This article looks at how modern technologies like DL and the IoT can improve patient monitoring, clinical results, and ICU processes. Furthermore, it investigates the function of wearable and advanced health sensors coupled with IoT networking systems, which enable the secure connection and analysis of various forms of patient data for predictive and remote analysis by medical professionals. By assessing existing patient monitoring systems, outlining the roles of DL and IoT, and analyzing the benefits and limitations of their integration, this study hopes to shed light on the future of ICU patient care and identify opportunities for further research.

Our online lives generate a wealth of behavioral records-digital footprints-which are stored and leveraged by technology platforms. These data can be used to create value for users by personalizing services. At the same time, however, it also poses a threat to people's privacy by offering a highly intimate window into their private traits (e.g., their personality, political ideology, sexual orientation). We explore the concept of cloaking: allowing users to hide parts of their digital footprints from predictive algorithms, to prevent unwanted inferences. This article addresses two open questions: (i) can cloaking be effective in the longer term, as users continue to generate new digital footprints? And (ii) what is the potential impact of cloaking on the accuracy of desirable inferences? We introduce a novel strategy focused on cloaking "metafeatures" and compare its efficacy against just cloaking the raw footprints. The main findings are (i) while cloaking effectiveness does indeed diminish over time, using metafeatures slows the degradation; (ii) there is a tradeoff between privacy and personalization: cloaking undesired inferences also can inhibit desirable inferences. Furthermore, the metafeature strategy-which yields more stable cloaking-also incurs a larger reduction in desirable inferences.

Physical therapists specializing in sports rehabilitation detection help injured athletes recover from their wounds and avoid further harm. Sports rehabilitators treat not just commonplace sports injuries but also work-related musculoskeletal injuries, discomfort, and disorders. Sensor-equipped Internet of Things (IoT) monitors the real-time location of medical equipment such as scooters, cardioverters, nebulizer treatments, oxygenation pumps, or other monitor gear. Analysis of medicine deployment across sites is possible in real time. Health care delivery based on digital technology to improve access, affordability, and sustainability of medical treatment is known as digital health care. The challenging characteristics of such sports injury rehabilitation for digital health care are playing position, game strategies, and cybersecurity. Hence, in this research, health care IoT-enabled body area networks (HIoT-BAN) have been designed to improve sports injury rehabilitation detection for digital health care. The health care sector may benefit significantly from IoT adoption since it allows for enhanced patient safety; health care investment management includes controlling the hospital's pharmaceutical stock and monitoring the heat and humidity levels. Digital health describes a group of programmers made to aid health care delivery, whether by assisting with clinical decision-making or streamlining back-end operations in health care institutions. A HIoT-BAN effectively predicts the rise in sports injury rehabilitation detection with faster digital health care based on IoT. The research concludes that the HIoT-BAN effectively indicates sports injury rehabilitation detection for digital health care. The experimental analysis of HIoT-BAN outperforms the IoT method in terms of performance, accuracy, prediction ratio, and mean square error rate.

Liver cirrhosis stands as a prominent contributor to mortality, impacting millions across the United States. Enabling health care providers to predict early mortality among patients with cirrhosis holds the potential to enhance treatment efficacy significantly. Our hypothesis centers on the correlation between mortality and laboratory test results along with relevant diagnoses in this patient cohort. Additionally, we posit that a deep learning model could surpass the predictive capabilities of the existing Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score. This research seeks to advance prognostic accuracy and refine approaches to address the critical challenges posed by cirrhosis-related mortality. This study evaluates the performance of an artificial neural network model for liver disease classification using various training dataset sizes. Through meticulous experimentation, three distinct training proportions were analyzed: 70%, 80%, and 90%. The model's efficacy was assessed using precision, recall, F1-score, accuracy, and support metrics, alongside receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and precision-recall (PR) curves. The ROC curves were quantified using the area under the curve (AUC) metric. Results indicated that the model's performance improved with an increased size of the training dataset. Specifically, the 80% training data model achieved the highest AUC, suggesting superior classification ability over the models trained with 70% and 90% data. PR analysis revealed a steep trade-off between precision and recall across all datasets, with 80% training data again demonstrating a slightly better balance. This is indicative of the challenges faced in achieving high precision with a concurrently high recall, a common issue in imbalanced datasets such as those found in medical diagnostics.

Predicting propagation cascades is crucial for understanding information propagation in social networks. Existing methods always focus on structure or order of infected users in a single cascade sequence, ignoring the global dependencies of cascades and users, which is insufficient to characterize their dynamic interaction preferences. Moreover, existing methods are poor at addressing the problem of model robustness. To address these issues, we propose a predication model named DropMessage Hypergraph Attention Networks, which constructs a hypergraph based on the cascade sequence. Specifically, to dynamically obtain user preferences, we divide the diffusion hypergraph into multiple subgraphs according to the time stamps, develop hypergraph attention networks to explicitly learn complete interactions, and adopt a gated fusion strategy to connect them for user cascade prediction. In addition, a new drop immediately method DropMessage is added to increase the robustness of the model. Experimental results on three real-world datasets indicate that proposed model significantly outperforms the most advanced information propagation prediction model in both MAP@k and Hits@K metrics, and the experiment also proves that the model achieves more significant prediction performance than the existing model under data perturbation.

The influence maximization problem has several issues, including low infection rates and high time complexity. Many proposed methods are not suitable for large-scale networks due to their time complexity or free parameter usage. To address these challenges, this article proposes a local heuristic called Embedding Technique for Influence Maximization (ETIM) that uses shell decomposition, graph embedding, and reduction, as well as combined local structural features. The algorithm selects candidate nodes based on their connections among network shells and topological features, reducing the search space and computational overhead. It uses a deep learning-based node embedding technique to create a multidimensional vector of candidate nodes and calculates the dependency on spreading for each node based on local topological features. Finally, influential nodes are identified using the results of the previous phases and newly defined local features. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using the independent cascade model, showing its competitiveness and ability to achieve the best performance in terms of solution quality. Compared with the collective influence global algorithm, ETIM is significantly faster and improves the infection rate by an average of 12%.