Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 8
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents - Special Issue: Cybernetic intelligent systems
HDR imaging for feature tracking in challenging visibility scenes
Lounis Chermak, Nabil Aouf, Mark RichardsonIn visual-based applications, lighting conditions have a considerable impact on quality of the acquired images. Extremely low or high illuminated environments are a real issue for…
A new classification strategy for human activity recognition using cost sensitive support vector machines for imbalanced data
Bilal M’hamed Abidine, Belkacem Fergani, Mourad Oussalah, Lamya FerganiThe task of identifying activity classes from sensor information in smart home is very challenging because of the imbalanced nature of such data set where some activities occur…
Coarticulation and speech synchronization in MPEG-4 based facial animation
Ricardo Leandro Parreira Duarte, Abdennour El Rhalibi, Madjid Merabti– The purpose of this paper is to present a novel coarticulation and speech synchronization framework compliant with MPEG-4 facial animation (FA).
Semantic Category theory and Semantic Intertwine: the anathema of mathematics
John St QuintonThe recent scientific observation that human information processing involves four independent data types, has pinpointed a source of fallacious arguments within many domains of…
Tracking progress of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method
Anthony Afful-Dadzie, Eric Afful-Dadzie, Stephen Nabareseh, Zuzana Komínková OplatkováThe purpose of this paper is to propose a new assessment methodology for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method (FCEM) and the Delphi…
Service branding: suggesting an interactive model of service brand development
Hugo Skaalsvik, Bjørn Olsen– The purpose of this paper is to suggest an interactive model of service brand development.
Research on the relationship between air quality and economy development in major cities of China
Xin Ma, Rubing Ge, Li ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to build a support vector machine (SVM) model to evaluate the city air quality level, using the three main air pollutants selected as evaluation…
Enactive management: dancing with uncertainty and complexity
Osvaldo García de la Cerda, María Soledad Saavedra UlloaThe purpose of this paper is to present and explain an enactive tool to be used by managers to move effectively in the context of high uncertainty and complexity that…
Containment control of second-order multi-agent systems with directed topology and time-delays
Bin Qi, Xuyang Lou, Baotong CuiThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the impacts of the communication time-delays to the distributed containment control of the second-order multi-agent systems with directed…
Job scheduling in the Expert Cloud based on genetic algorithms
Nima Jafari Navimipour, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Ahmad Habibizad Navin, Mehdi HosseinzadehExpert Cloud as a new class of Cloud computing systems enables its users to request the skill, knowledge and expertise of people by employing internet infrastructures and Cloud…
