Decision Support Systems

This paper presents an assessment of the Chinese healthcare system in 31 provinces for a 10-year period in light of relevant physical and human resource variables. First, a novel TEA-IS (Trigonometric Envelopment Analysis for Ideal ...

• we assess the performance and synergy in Chinese Health Care
• a novel ...

Sharing economy transportation applications reduce car ownership and single-vehicle occupancy, contributing to the region's environmental sustainability. Metaverse is a promising new technology that combines sharing economy ...

• Three sharing economy-based metaverse integration alternatives are advantage prioritized.

The first-stage decision is critical in the decision process in crowdfunding, where the cover image plays an important role in forming first impressions and persuading click funders. This study explores how emotional visual cues (human ...

• First-stage decision and first impressions are critical in the decision process in crowdfunding.

In response to online misinformation, source rating services evaluate thousands of popular websites, mark them as reputable or disreputable, and provide detailed information explaining their evaluations. In this paper, we examine the ...

• Negative news source rating icons from expert fact-checkers reduced users' belief in articles.

Despite anti-phishing filters, social engineering-based cyber-attacks still result in billions of dollars lost annually, significant personal identity theft, loss of corporate secrets, and espionage. We review the phishing literature ...

• To identify the need to continuously identify tactics embedded in email content to understand why users still fall prey to phishing attacks.

E-learning platforms have increasingly been adopted by corporate employees in the workplace. On these platforms, users typically follow a two-stage decision-making process: they first choose which content to learn and then decide how ...

• E-learning employees are impacted by mass and work group.
• Group affects both ...

With the proliferation of data has arisen an array of information visualization tools to help humans convert data to information for better decision-making. This ever-expanding visualization toolset has outrun the development of ...

• There is a relative (evolutionary fit) advantage of 3-D surface graphs over other informationally equivalent 2-D graphs.

The introduction of consumer-initiated models with small group size has increased the popularity of group buying. With lower size requirements for forming buying groups, more impulsive buying is facilitated while more postpurchase ...

• Coparticipant response speed towards group-buying deal affects initiator's regret