Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations
暫譯: 社會科學中的決策：傳統與創新之間

本書探討了社會科學的幾個分支及其對於決策過程的關係的觀點：計算機科學、教育、語言學、社會學和管理學。在社會情境中的決策過程是基於對合理選擇的分析，並使用評估標準。因此，這個過程可以是理性或非理性的，並且可以基於知識和/或信念。決策過程總是會產生最終決策，這可能會或不會意味著立即行動，並增加選擇最佳可能替代方案的機會。本書分為四個主要部分。第一部分涵蓋的概念，關於計算機科學，探討了算法的興起和計算能力的增長如何影響決策過程。在第二部分中，介紹了一些在教育中使用的傳統和創新理念及方法：義務教育、包容性學校、高等教育等。第三部分則專注於語言學方面，檢視進步如何在語言中表現出來。第四部分，關於社會學，探討了社會如何受到社會規範、人際互動、文化和宗教的影響。管理學作為決策過程的科學，在本書的最後一部分中進行探討。選定組織的策略、目標和資源被呈現出來，例如人力資源、財務資源和技術資源。

本書以簡潔的格式彙集並呈現了有關社會情境中決策過程的廣泛方面，使其成為科學社群中一個有價值且獨特的資源。

​Daniel Flaut is a professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania. He is the author and the co-author of more than 50 books, chapters of books, and papers in important journals.He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Revista Română de Studii Eurasiatice, indexed in various Databases. He is also a member of the editorial board of various journals. He is Director of the Eurasian Studies Center of Faculty of History and Political Science of Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania. As the co-author of the book Arheologie medievală română, he received in 2006 the "George Potra" prize, awarded by the Cultural Foundation "Magazin Istoric", Romania.Areas of interest: medieval history, auxiliary sciences of history, history ofinternational relations.
Sárka Hosková-Mayerová is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Defence in Brno, Czech Republic. She is the co-author of the monograph Quality of Spatial Data in Command and Control System and co-editor of five books published in Springer Publishing house. She is the author or co-author of several chapters of books and papers in valuable journals (e.g. Soft Computing, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii Ovidius Constanţa-Seria Matematica, Quality & Quantity, etc.). She is the Chief Editor of the journal Ratio Mathematica, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems published by IOS Press. Moreover, she is a member of editorial board of various journals, e.g. Italian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Advances in Military Technology.Her areas of interest are mathematical modelling and decision-making process, algebraic hyperstructures, and fuzzy structures.
Cristina Ispas is lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Univesity "Eftimie Murgu" of Resita, Romania. She is the author of two books, and coordinator of two other books, author of more than 30 chapters of books and papers in important journals. She is member of the editorial board of international journal Analele Universităţii "Eftimie Murgu" din Reşiţa, Fascicola de Ştiinţe Social-Umaniste.
Areas of interest: educational management, special psycho-pedagogy, pedagogy for primary and preschool education, family pedagogy, family and child social work.
Fabrizio Maturo is a PhD in "Economics and Statistics" and is qualified to function as an associate professor in statistics in Italy and Romania. He was a Researcher in Statistics at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and then a Researcher in Biostatistics at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. Now, he is a Researcher in Statistics at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Caserta (Italy) and an Adjunct Professor in the Bachelor's Degree in Data Analytics. He is the Chief Editor of the international journal Ratio Mathematica and a Co-Editor of two international books published by Springer. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems published by IOS Press and of the Journal of Statistics and Management Systems published by Taylor & Francis. Fabrizio participates in the editorial board and does an activity as a referee for many other international journals. He is the author of about sixty publications in international journals and books, and his main research interests are biostatistics, diversity, functional data analysis, fuzzy logic, multivariate statistics, dimensionality reduction techniques, item response models, econometrics, and R statistical programming. His teaching activity regards statistics and computer science.

Cristina Flaut is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania. She is the author and the co-author of more than 60 monographs, chapters of books, and papers in important journals (as for example in Taylor & Francis, in Springer or in the journals: Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras, Bull. Korean Math. Soc., Adv. Differ. Equ.-NY, J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst., Results Math., Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Soft Computing, Algebr. Represent. Theor., J. Differ. Equ. Appl., etc.).She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii Ovidius Constanţa-Seria Matematica, an ISI journal. In 2016, she was considered the best researcher of the Ovidius University of Constanţa.Areas of interest: algebra (nonassociative algebras, logical algebras), codingtheory and cryptography.

丹尼爾·弗勞特（Daniel Flaut）是羅馬尼亞康斯坦察奧維迪烏斯大學（Ovidius University of Constanța）歷史與政治科學系的教授。他是超過50本書籍、書章及重要期刊論文的作者和合著者。他是期刊《Revista Română de Studii Eurasiatice》的主編，該期刊已被多個數據庫索引。他也是多個期刊的編輯委員會成員。他是康斯坦察奧維迪烏斯大學歷史與政治科學院的歐亞研究中心主任。作為書籍《羅馬尼亞中世紀考古學》（Arheologie medievală română）的合著者，他於2006年獲得由羅馬尼亞文化基金會《歷史雜誌》（Magazin Istoric）頒發的「喬治·波特拉獎」（George Potra prize）。研究領域：中世紀歷史、歷史輔助科學、國際關係史。

薩爾卡·霍斯科娃-梅耶羅娃（Sárka Hosková-Mayerová）是捷克共和國布爾諾國防大學（University of Defence in Brno）數學與物理系的副教授。她是專著《指揮與控制系統中的空間數據質量》（Quality of Spatial Data in Command and Control System）的合著者，並且是五本由施普林格出版社（Springer Publishing）出版的書籍的共同編輯。她是多篇書籍章節及重要期刊（例如《Soft Computing》、《Computers & Mathematics with Applications》、《Analele Științifice ale Universității Ovidius Constanța-Seria Matematica》、《Quality & Quantity》等）的作者或合著者。她是期刊《Ratio Mathematica》的主編，也是IOS Press出版的《Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems》的副編輯。此外，她還是多個期刊的編輯委員會成員，例如《Italian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics》和《Advances in Military Technology》。她的研究領域包括數學建模與決策過程、代數超結構及模糊結構。

克里斯蒂娜·伊斯帕斯（Cristina Ispas）是羅馬尼亞雷希察的「埃夫提米·穆爾古」大學（University 'Eftimie Murgu' of Reșița）社會科學學院的講師。她是兩本書的作者，並協調另外兩本書，擁有超過30篇書籍章節及重要期刊論文的作者身份。她是國際期刊《Analele Universității 'Eftimie Murgu' din Reșița, Fascicola de Științe Social-Umaniste》的編輯委員會成員。研究領域：教育管理、特殊心理教育、小學及學前教育的教育學、家庭教育、家庭與兒童社會工作。

法布里齊奧·馬圖羅（Fabrizio Maturo）擁有「經濟學與統計學」的博士學位，並在意大利和羅馬尼亞具備擔任統計學副教授的資格。他曾在意大利基耶提-佩斯卡拉大學（University of Chieti-Pescara）擔任統計研究員，之後在愛爾蘭國立大學高威（National University of Ireland Galway）擔任生物統計研究員。目前，他是意大利卡塞塔的坎帕尼亞大學（University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'）的統計研究員，並在數據分析學士學位課程中擔任兼任教授。他是國際期刊《Ratio Mathematica》的主編，並且是兩本由施普林格出版的國際書籍的共同編輯。他是IOS Press出版的《Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems》和泰勒與弗朗西斯出版的《Journal of Statistics and Management Systems》的副編輯。法布里齊奧參與多個國際期刊的編輯委員會並擔任審稿人。他在國際期刊和書籍上發表了約六十篇出版物，主要研究興趣包括生物統計學、多樣性、功能數據分析、模糊邏輯、多變量統計、降維技術、項目反應模型、計量經濟學及R統計編程。他的教學活動涉及統計學和計算機科學。

克里斯蒂娜·弗勞特（Cristina Flaut）是羅馬尼亞康斯坦察奧維迪烏斯大學數學與計算機科學系的教授。她是超過60本專著、書籍章節及重要期刊論文的作者和合著者（例如在泰勒與弗朗西斯、施普林格或期刊《Ann. Mat. Pura Appl.》、《Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras》、《Bull. Korean Math. Soc.》、《Adv. Differ. Equ.-NY》、《J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.》、《Results Math.》、《Chaos, Solitons & Fractals》、《Soft Computing》、《Algebr. Represent. Theor.》、《J. Differ. Equ. Appl.》等）。她是期刊《Analele științifice ale Universității Ovidius Constanța-Seria Matematica》的主編，該期刊為ISI期刊。2016年，她被評為康斯坦察奧維迪烏斯大學最佳研究員。研究領域：代數（非關聯代數、邏輯代數）、編碼理論及密碼學。