{"title":"A systematic review of Digital Twins in efficient pandemic management with challenges and emerging trends","authors":"Ettilla Mohiuddin Eumi","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, Digital Twins (DTs) implementation has significantly impacted various sectors like industry, healthcare, engineering, and technology. However, the examination of these areas concerning pandemic management is still in its early stages. To bridge this gap, a systematic literature review was conducted here spanning from 2017 to March 2024, with a specific focus on COVID-19-related issues from 2020 to March 2024. Employing a five-step filtering process, nearly 10,000 articles were initially identified based on specific search strings. Subsequently, 297 publications were selected and examined across pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic phases to discern emerging patterns, limitations, and future research directions. Drawing from these insights, a concept for a ‘Digital-Twin-based Smart Pandemic City’ was proposed, aiming to ensure contemporary amenities while preparing for potential pandemics by leveraging advanced cloud storage and blockchain technology for secure data aggregation. Anticipated challenges that may arise in implementing this model in the future were also explored in this review study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224001061/pdfft?md5=7d8d793ea8cd137f12979c7693e88bba&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224001061-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sagarika Mohanty, Bibhudatta Sahoo, Subham Sai Behera
{"title":"An assessment of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for resilient controller placement in software-defined networks","authors":"Sagarika Mohanty, Bibhudatta Sahoo, Subham Sai Behera","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100501","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100501","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Software-defined Networking (SDN) offers flexibility and programmability, making it a desirable option for modern network architecture. SDN provides numerous benefits to network administrators due to its centralized control architecture. This allows network administrators to manage and configure the network from a single location, making it easier to manage and automate network tasks. In a network of multiple controllers, the control plane’s resiliency may impact the overall system’s performance. In a controller failure scenario, switches must be reassigned to other active controllers with adequate capacity. Thus, we define a resilient controller placement (RCP) as an optimization problem. The aim is to design physically distributed and redundant controllers to manage switches with varying resilience levels. The propagation latency may increase due to the reassignment, increasing the network cost. The objective is to determine the number of controllers required, their positions, and the allocation of the network nodes to a particular controller while reducing the average propagation latency and cost in meeting the capacity constraint of the controller. Due to the wide area network (WAN) structure, four nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are proposed namely, simulated annealing (RCP-SA), moth-flame optimization algorithm (RCP-MFO), particle swarm optimization (RCP-PSO), and grey wolf optimization algorithm (RCP-GWO). These algorithms are evaluated on three network datasets to determine the optimum controller number and their positions. The experimental results show that RCP-GWO performs better than RCP-SA, RCP-MFO, RCP-PSO, and the Random methods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277266222400105X/pdfft?md5=789051d6bc046617e9a2e7dbc59bb92a&pid=1-s2.0-S277266222400105X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141622307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of the equilibrium strategies for route-choosing customers in a two-station queueing system","authors":"Geofferey Jiyun Kim , Jerim Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100500","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate a two-station queueing system where strategic customers must be sequentially serviced at both stations. We prove that an established property — that the distribution of the total time spent in a two-station system is independent of the chosen route when services times are exponentially distributed — is not a general one by providing a counterexample with deterministic service times. In doing so, we also prove a concomitant property — that any routing strategy is an equilibrium — is peculiar to a system with a particular assumption of an exponential service time distribution. Using simulations, we show that — depending on the distribution of service times — there can be (1) cases with three equilibria, (2) cases with one pure strategy equilibrium, and (3) cases with one mixed strategy equilibrium.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224001048/pdfft?md5=e54bb5543da6529fffda68c81e3d2365&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224001048-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141637189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simulation-based optimization model for balancing economic profitability and working capital efficiency using system dynamics and genetic algorithms","authors":"Ehsan Badakhshan, Ramin Bahadori","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Economic uncertainty has been increasing, as evidenced by recent fluctuations in global markets and unpredictable economic indicators such as volatile demand, stock market fluctuations, and unpredictable interest rates. Economic profitability and working capital efficiency are pivotal indicators of a business’s financial health, both of which are adversely impacted by economic uncertainty. However, these metrics may diverge as distinct objectives drive them. There exists a gap in the literature regarding effective strategies for managing the trade-off between these metrics under economic uncertainty. This study addresses this gap by introducing a simulation-based optimization model that integrates system dynamics simulation and genetic algorithms. The proposed model aims to balance economic profitability and working capital efficiency within inventory management under partial trade credit. A recent real case study demonstrates the model’s applicability and reveals its superiority over conventional system dynamics simulation modeling. With its capacity to inform strategic and tactical decision-making, this model emerges as a valuable tool for supply chain and financial managers seeking to ensure financial stability amidst economic volatility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224001024/pdfft?md5=62f59f94ce962ac5970764df10c38a7c&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224001024-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141622306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eram Mahamud , Nafiz Fahad , Md Assaduzzaman , S.M. Zain , Kah Ong Michael Goh , Md. Kishor Morol
{"title":"An explainable artificial intelligence model for multiple lung diseases classification from chest X-ray images using fine-tuned transfer learning","authors":"Eram Mahamud , Nafiz Fahad , Md Assaduzzaman , S.M. Zain , Kah Ong Michael Goh , Md. Kishor Morol","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional deep learning models are often considered “black boxes” due to their lack of interpretability, which limits their therapeutic use despite their success in classification tasks. This study aims to improve the interpretability of diagnoses for COVID-19, pneumonia, and tuberculosis from X-ray images using an enhanced DenseNet201 model within a transfer learning framework. We incorporated Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques, including SHAP, LIME, Grad-CAM, and Grad-CAM++, to make the model’s decisions more understandable. To enhance image clarity and detail, we applied preprocessing methods such as Denoising Autoencoder, Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), and Gamma Correction. An ablation study was conducted to identify the optimal parameters for the proposed approach. Our model’s performance was compared with other transfer learning-based models like EfficientNetB0, InceptionV3, and LeNet using evaluation metrics. The model that included data augmentation techniques achieved the best results, with an accuracy of 99.20%, and precision and recall of 99%. This demonstrates the critical role of data augmentation in improving model performance. SHAP and LIME provided significant insights into the model’s decision-making process, while Grad-CAM and Grad-CAM++ highlighted specific image features and regions influencing the model’s classifications. These techniques enhanced transparency and trust in AI-assisted diagnoses. Finally, we developed an Android-based system using the most effective model to support medical specialists in their decision-making process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224001036/pdfft?md5=b430bd720529ecff7f7f19d1a65e9d47&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224001036-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141607905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maiquiel Schmidt de Oliveira , Vilmar Steffen , Franklin Angelo Krukoski , Maressa Fontana Mezoni , Flávio Trojan
{"title":"An integrated data envelopment analysis framework for operational efficiency assessment in Brazilian international airports","authors":"Maiquiel Schmidt de Oliveira , Vilmar Steffen , Franklin Angelo Krukoski , Maressa Fontana Mezoni , Flávio Trojan","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100493","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100493","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>International airports play a significant role in a country’s economic development. We propose an integrated framework for operational efficiency analysis using Data Envelopment Analysis, Windows Analysis, and Malmquist Index to identify inefficiencies and areas of improvement in the air transportation industry. This study analyzed 23 Brazilian international airports from 2010 to 2021, using the DEA Window Analysis (DEAWA) combined with the Index (MI). The airports were grouped geographically in southern Brazil. The integration of these methods brought an important insight to the evaluation processes, even for those previously analyzed using DEA. The analyses found that COVID-19 potently influenced the drop in the efficiency index. No airport was fully efficient over the analyzed periods. Private airports achieved an efficiency index slightly higher than public ones, but the difference of the efficiency index by public–private management type is not clear. This type of analysis provides a strategic and comparative tool, making it possible to understand better the weaknesses of the air transportation system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224000973/pdfft?md5=a16133fdefa31f919d9777ed8c01629c&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224000973-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141403907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jayanta Bhusan Deb , Shilpa Chowdhury , Nur Mohammad Ali
{"title":"An investigation of the ensemble machine learning techniques for predicting mechanical properties of printed parts in additive manufacturing","authors":"Jayanta Bhusan Deb , Shilpa Chowdhury , Nur Mohammad Ali","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100492","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100492","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the ensemble machine learning models to predict the mechanical properties of the 3D-printed Polylactic Acid (PLA) specimens. We studied the effects of five process parameters, including the build orientation, infill angle, layer thickness, printing speed, and nozzle temperature, on the printed parts tensile strength and surface roughness. Machine learning models are developed using the experimental data collected from the printed 27 specimens. Gradient Boosting Regression, Extreme Gradient Boosting Regression, Adaptive Boosting Regression, Random Forest Regression, and Extremely Randomized Tree Regression models were developed during the machine learning modeling stage to predict the surface roughness and tensile strength of the printed parts. This research demonstrates the effectiveness of Extremely Randomized Tree Regression model in providing accurate tensile strength predictions with root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.03, mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.82, and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.20%. Similarly, Random Forest Regression model shows better accuracy in predicting surface roughness having RMSE of 0.408, MAE of 0.31, and MAPE of 9.28%. Moreover, the comparative study confirms that ensemble machine learning techniques are more useful than the traditional support vector and k-nearest neighbor machine learning models for predicting the surface roughness and tensile strength of the printed parts. The results highlight a novel approach of using ensemble machine learning models in identifying complex correlations in the dataset, establishing the foundation for improved product design and mechanical property optimization through adjustment of the process parameters combination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224000961/pdfft?md5=943b21fd5f416af0ea35b11331903194&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224000961-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141412019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irfan Ali, Golam Kabir, Umar Muhammad Modibbo, Fariba Goodarzian, Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez
{"title":"Advances in big data optimization models, algorithms, and applications","authors":"Irfan Ali, Golam Kabir, Umar Muhammad Modibbo, Fariba Goodarzian, Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277266222400095X/pdfft?md5=5dea06f849281d3be4f4976ea91a5d34&pid=1-s2.0-S277266222400095X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141313184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A mathematical analysis of the effects of control strategies on the transmission dynamics of Chlamydiosis","authors":"N. Nyerere , Y.A. Liana","doi":"10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100490","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Chlamydiosis remains a major public health concern in both developed and developing countries due to its effects on the human reproductive system. While limited modeling studies have been conducted on the transmission dynamics of the disease, none of them have examined the impacts of the combination of environmental hygiene and other control strategies. In this paper, we present a mathematical model to investigate the impacts of public health education, vaccination of susceptible individuals, treatment of symptomatic infected individuals, and environmental hygiene. The basic reproduction number is computed using the next-generation operator and is employed in the stability analysis of equilibrium points. We also perform a sensitivity analysis of the model using a normalized forward sensitivity index to identify the parameters significantly affecting the effective reproduction number. Findings from analytical solutions and numerical simulations demonstrate that, public health education, vaccination, treatment, and environmental hygiene significantly reduce chlamydiosis incidence and prevalence in the population. Consequently, the study recommends implementing these control measures, particularly in regions where the disease is endemic. Thus, findings from this study could be utilized to support decision-making in Chlamydiosis control strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100357,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analytics Journal","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772662224000948/pdfft?md5=0efe2619ef907392b6e94a7068c4d374&pid=1-s2.0-S2772662224000948-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141303367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}