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ArticleScientific reports2025

Construction of intelligent decision support systems through integration of retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graphs.

Sili Wang, Heng Yang, Guangzu Bai

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Sili WangKey Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China. wangsl@llas.ac.cn.
Heng YangKey Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China.
Guangzu BaiKey Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China.

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province 23JRRA581
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article proposes a novel framework for intelligent decision support systems based on retrieval augmented generation models and knowledge graphs, in order to overcome the shortcomings of current approaches. Systems Like Mistral 7B, LLaMA-2, and others tend to fail at contextual understanding, transparency, and reasoning over many steps involving many domains. Our proposed architecture combines the strengths of generative models, enhanced by external knowledge retrieval, with structured, linked representations of domain knowledge. With this synergy, we show improvement in decision accuracy, reasoning transparency, and context relevance compared to using either technology alone. The structure has a flexible knowledge orchestration layer that optimizes information exchange between structured representations and generative capabilities. Research conducted on three areas, namely, financial services, healthcare management, and the supply chain has shown that our method performs particularly well when it comes to cross-domain reasoning and ambiguous queries. This study deepens our understanding of knowledge-enhancing artificial intelligence systems as well as offers a roadmap for a next-generation decision support system. The framework is designed to tackle some of the most challenging issues faced by enterprises in making decisions. In particular, it draws from both context and expertise to provide explainable recommendations.

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Enterprise decision-makingExplainable AIHybrid AIIntelligent decision support systemsKnowledge graphsNeural-symbolic systemsRetrieval-augmented generationSemantic integration

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PMID41073437
PMCPMC12514041

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