Kybernetes: Volume 42 Issue 7

On condition of reaching a high level of consensus when new decision makers join

Zaiwu Gong, Jeffrey Forrest, Yingjie Yang, Cuiping Wei

The consensus opinion helps with the achievement of fairness of the decision process, especially when the new decision makers (DMs) are added into the group decision making (GDM)…

Assignment of project members considering capability and personality balance

Chiu-Chi Wei, Ming-Chun Lai, Chiou-Shuei Wei, Li-Hui Peng

– This paper aims to construct for the first time a link between the project members' assignment and personality balance.

Factors impacting end-users' usage of ERP in China

Suodi Zhang, Ping Gao, Zhiyuan Ge

– This paper aims to examine the influence of organizational support, subjective norm and output quality on end-users' usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in China.

Neural network using Bayesian algorithm for estimation of petroleum reservoir

Hesam Odin Komari Alaei, Alireza Yazdizadeh

This paper is concerned with the estimation of reservoir parameters in the presence of noise and outliers using neural network (NN) and Bayesian algorithm. The paper aims to…

Recognition of nursing activity with accelerometers and RFID

Yoshihiro Takebe, Masako Kanai-Pak, Noriaki Kuwahara, Jukai Maeda, Miwa Hirata, Yasuko Kitajima, Jun Ota

– This paper aims to construct a recognition system of nursing activities.

Performance evaluation with fuzzy VIKOR and AHP method based on customer satisfaction in Turkish banking sector

Hasan Dincer, Umit Hacioglu

Firms operating in the service sector must have a dynamic structure to be competitive in a volatile business environment. The dynamic structure brings skilled employees and…

From biology to the man-made systems: A parasitic behavior to describe deficiency in the financial systems

S.M.B. Malaek, Hadi Farhangi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a behavioral mode (as opposed to a numerical one), which considers any parasitic behavior as an indication of a potentially contributing…

Handover optimization in business processes via prediction

Jian Liu, Peng Liu, Sifeng Liu, Yizhong Ma, Wensheng Yang

Process mining provides a new means to improve processes in a variety of application domains. The purpose of this paper is to abstract a process model and then use the discovered…

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, Chris Bissell, David Chapman