Joshua Winograd^1,#, Rebecca Kindler^2,#, Cassidy Lleras², Alia Codelia-Anjum³, Naeem Bhojani⁴, Dean Elterman⁵, Michael A. Diefenbach³, Daniel Ufearo², Katharine Kechejian², Siri Drangsholt², Bilal Chughtai^3,*

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 219-227, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cju.2025.064404 - 27 June 2025

Abstract Introduction: Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) is a common condition affecting men later in life, significantly impacting quality of life (QOL). Surgical intervention is often pursued when medical management fails, but patient satisfaction with outcomes varies. Decisional regret can affect perceived success and patient satisfaction post-surgery. This study evaluates the relationship between post-surgical symptoms and decisional regret across BPH procedures. Methods: A prospective, multicenter cohort study included 54 patients undergoing BPH surgery between March 2023 and February 2024. Patients completed the International Prostate Symptom Score-QOL (IPSS-QOL) scale preoperatively and at least three months postoperatively, along with… More >

Ting-Yu Lin¹, Kuo-Chen Hung^2,*, Josef Jablonsky³, Kuo-Ping Lin¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 1901-1927, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063543 - 16 April 2025

Abstract VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) has been developed and applied for over twenty-five years, gaining recognition as a prominent multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method. Over this period, numerous studies have explored its applications, conducted comparative analyses, integrated it with other methods, and proposed various modifications to enhance its performance. This paper aims to delve into the fundamental principles and objectives of VIKOR, which aim to maximize group utility and minimize individual regret simultaneously. However, this study identifies a significant limitation in the VIKOR methodology: its process amplifies the weight of individual regret, and the calculated… More >

Hanan Abdullah Mengash^*, Manel Farouk Ayadi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2777-2795, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.015434 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Feelings influence human beings’ decision-making; therefore, incorporation of feeling factors in decision-making is very important. Regret and rejoice are very important emotional feelings that can have a great impact on decision-making if they are considered together. While regret has received most of the attention in related research, rejoice has been less considered even though it can greatly influence people’s preferences in decision-making. Furthermore, systematically incorporating regret and rejoice in the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) modeling frameworks for decision-making has received little research attention. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-attribute selection procedure that incorporates both… More >