Kybernetes: Volume 41 Issue 7/8
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents - Special Issue: Uncertain systems: Models, methods and applications, Part 2
Guest Editors: Sifeng Liu, Jeffrey Forrest, Yingie Yangjie, Ke Zhang, Chuanmin Mi, Naiming Xie
Dynamic suppliers' risk management of large‐scale and complex equipment development
Wenfeng Yuan, Sifeng Liu, Chaoqing YuanThe paper attempts to establish a two‐dimension frame to analyze dynamic supplier risks of large‐scale and complex equipment and study the probability distribution of the…
Functional analysis model for selecting leading industry under grey information
Zhigeng Fang, Qunfeng Wang, Hengwu WeiThis paper attempts to select the leading industry concerning uncertain information and grey interval numbers.
Some extended operations of grey sets
Y. Yang, R. John, S. LiuThe purpose of this paper is to advance new rules about operations of grey sets based on grey numbers and greyness and investigate their capability in reducing uncertainty.
A study on government regulation mechanism of promoting enterprises in China in energy conservation
Benhai Guo, Rongrong Zhang, Chaoqing YuanThis paper attempts to study the impact of changing incentive strategies on enterprises' energy saving effort level and to construct an effective principal‐agent mechanism to…
IN‐GM(0, N) cost forecasting model of commercial aircraft based on interval grey numbers
Min Tian, Ying Cao, Naiming Xie, Sifeng LiuThe purpose of this paper is to construct a novel GM(0, N) model based on grey number sequences and to solve the problem of cost forecasting of commercial aircraft which puzzled…
Research on irrational bubbles in the stock market based on the perspective of generalized virtual economy
Hongqi Liu, Tianbing Jia, Chaoqing Yuan, Yifan ZhangThis paper attempts to provide novel approaches and tools for the analysis and measurement of stock bubbles.
Study on credibility level of trustworthy software development process based on grey nonlinear cluster
Chuanmin Mi, Min Tian, Xuemei LiThis paper attempts to put forward a convincing and flexible grey cluster method that can be used in confirming credibility level of trustworthy software development process.
Petri net model for supply‐chain quality conflict resolution of a complex product
Yuan Liu, Shili Fang, Zhigeng Fang, Keith W. HipelThis paper aims to develop a Petri net model for analyzing the quality conflict and its resolution of a complex product. The result aims to assist decision makers (DMs) to…
Superior relation between cardiac parameters and blood pressure
Yuhua Yang, Xuerui TanThe purpose of this paper is to study the superior relationship among the parameters of age, casual blood pressure and 24‐hour ambulatory blood pressure with left atrial and…
The absolute degree of grey incidence for grey sequence base on standard grey interval number operation
Ke Zhang, Wei Ye, Liping ZhaoThis paper attempts to extend classic absolute degree of grey incidence so that the extended model can be used for grey number sequences.
Correlation analysis of bearing track using grey system theory
Yeqing Guan, Dejin SongThe paper attempts to design an efficient algorithm for bearing track correlation of multi‐sensor on the same platform using grey incidence analysis which is on the basis of the…
Study on optimizing resources configuration of value activity network of manufacturing clusters
Wenping Wang, Xinhuan Huang, Jie XieThe paper attempts to analyze the network structure of value activity in manufacturing clusters, propose the model of value creation of cluster's value activity network, and…
Modeling and simulation of stranded passengers' transferring decision‐making on the basis of herd behaviors
Yang Shen, Sifeng Liu, Zhigeng Fang, Mingli HuThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the pattern of passengers' transferring on occasion of a large crowd being stranded at transportation hubs (such as a bus station, railway…
The three inevitabilities of human being: A conceptual hierarchy model approaching social complexity
Louis KleinThis paper seeks to address the need for a comprehensive theoretical reference underlying the concerns of social complexity. The shortcomings of a very powerful yet cognitively…
The numerical simulation of improving parameter estimation by instrumental variable method
Yinao Wang, Aiqing Ruan, Zhihui ZhanThis paper aims to study the improved effect of the instrumental variable method to estimate parameters of linear regression model with the stochastic explanatory variables…
A hybrid model using analytic network process and gray relational analysis for bank's IT outsourcing vendor selection
Jie Cao, Guo Cao, Weiwei WangConsidering the limitation of the single stage vendor selection model, this paper proposes a two‐stage vendor selection framework for IT outsourcing in microfinance banks.
Organisations as emergent normative personalities: part 2, predicting the unpredictable
Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink, B. Roy FriedenIn part 1 of this paper the organisation was modelled as a socio‐cognitive agency with a normative personality, where patterns of behaviour occur through underlying trait control…
Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany
Andrew Adamatzky, Theresa SchubertThe purpose of this paper is to develop experimental laboratory biological techniques for approximation of principle transport networks, optimizing transport links, and developing…
Managing homeland security: deployment, vigilance and persistence
Rahul Bhaskar, Bhushan Kapoor, Joseph SherifThis paper aims to analyze provisions in the existing US laws and government directives for deployment, vigilance and persistence in managing homeland security.
Occupying financial hubs
Alex M. AndrewThe aim of this paper is to review developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest.
