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This paper presents an extension of the MakeDecision application, significantly enhancing its capabilities for addressing multi-criteria decision problems and designing structural decision-making models. The updated tool includes a wide range of new techniques that broaden the comprehensiveness of calculations, enabling the development of more complex and robust decision models. These additions include new Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods for both crisp and fuzzy environments, as well as new distance metrics, normalization techniques, defuzzification methods, and correlation coefficients. A novel data visualization module has also been integrated to facilitate the interpretation of results. Furthermore, the application allows for the adjustment of decision models with specific measures characteristic of selected MCDA methods, such as the preference function in the Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE) method, the compromise solution in the Characteristic Objects Method (COMET) method, and the expected solution point in the Stable Preference Ordering Towards Ideal Solution (SPOTIS) method. Enhanced validation procedures provide users with more detailed guidance, while the redesigned interface improves usability. This extension transforms MakeDecision from a simple decision model prototyping tool into a comprehensive workbench, enabling the creation and analysis of advanced structural decision-making models.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.