Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 2

Business continuity management: a systemic framework for implementation

Nijaz Bajgoric

The paper aims at defining a systemic framework for the implementation of business continuity management (BCM). The framework is based on the assertion that the implementation of…

The process of crisis information dissemination: impacts of the strength of ties in social networks

Jiuchang Wei, Bing Bu, Xiumei Guo, Margaret Gollagher

The strength of ties between individuals influences the speed and spread of crisis information dissemination (CID). By constructing networks of strong and weak ties, this paper…

Extending the viable system model scope on ICT-sector software projects in Castilla y León

Julio César Puche Regaliza

This paper aims to extend the scope of the viable system model (VSM), which was developed by Stafford Beer in favour of its formalisation and practical application, to overcome…

Creativity-based well-being of employees as a basis of future economy and society

Simona Šarotar Žižek, Sonja Treven, Matjaž Mulej

A new non-technological innovation to manage socio-economic crises and to build new economy and society. Economic theory that is based on fictitious market cannot manage building…

Healthy organizations: toward a diagnostic method II

Mario Iván Tarride, Julia González

To contribute to the search for new viewpoints that will enrich the understanding of the complex organizational phenomenon, in particular by contributing to the development of a…

Research on group decision making with interval numbers based on plant growth simulation algorithm

Lei Li, Xiaolu Xie, Rui Guo

This paper aims at multi-attribute and multi-program group decision making when the attribute weights are completely unknown and the attribute value information is in the form of…

Case-based reasoning and electromagnetism-like method in construction management

Aleksandar Kartelj, Nebojša Šurlan, Zoran Cekić

The presented research proposes a method aimed to improve a case retrieval phase of the case-based reasoning (CBR) system through optimization of feature relevance parameters…

Adaptive-WFCNNs-backstepping force/motion control system for mobile-manipulator robot

Long Thang Mai, Nan Yao Wang

The purpose of this paper is to improve the flexibility and tracking errors of the controllers-based neural networks (NNs) for mobile manipulator robot (MMR) in the presence of…

Recent achievements in bionic implementations of insect structure and functions

Chao Liu, Jing Liu, Li Xu, Wei Xiang

Entomology is a useful tool when applied to engineering challenges that have been solved in nature. Especially when these special abilities of olfactory sensation, vision…

The effects of ontology-based and password-protected blog access control on perceived privacy benefit and perceived ease of use

Chi-Lun Liu

This work empirically evaluates the effectiveness of the novel ontology-based access-control mechanism and the common password-protected access-control mechanism for social blogs…

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, Chris Bissell, David Chapman