Kybernetes: Volume 44 Issue 5

How to reduce local government decision-making competition in China’s new urbanization process

Dong Wang, Hengzhou Xu, Xiaoyan Li

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of local government decision-making competition new urbanization, further to seek measures to weaken the negative effect of…

Interpretation problems: general mechanism and fundamental limitations of classical methods

Evgeny Volchenkov

The purpose of this paper is to investige the general computing mechanisms of solving the system information problems of interpretation and its fundamental limitations, due to…

A double decoupling postponement approach for integrated mixed flow production systems

Yanting Ni, Yi Wang

In a mixed flow production environment, interactions between production planning and scheduling are critical for mixed flow distributed manufacturing management. The purpose of…

Efficiency improvement based upon overall value judgment and weight restriction

Yong Zha, Jun Wang, Zhao Linlin, Liang Liang

The purpose of this paper is to consider the following problem: the authors consider a new constructed unit system to indicate the characteristics of the inputs and outputs of…

MADM method considering attribute aspirations with an application to selection of wastewater treatment technologies

Guang-Xin Gao, Zhi-Ping Fan, Yao Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for solving the multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) problem in which the decision maker can provide the five types of…

Transaction tax, heterogeneous traders and market volatility

Hongquan LI, Gang Cheng, Shouyang Wang

The securities transaction tax (STT) has been theoretically considered as an important regulation device for decades. However, its role and effectiveness in financial markets is…

Corporate Facebook and stakeholder engagement

Enrique Bonsón Ponte, Elena Carvajal-Trujillo, Tomás Escobar-Rodríguez

The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial assessment of corporate Facebook use by Spanish hotel chains. Two aspects are considered: communication activity and stakeholder…

A comparison of the different versions of popular technology acceptance models: A non-linear perspective

Francisco Javier Rondan-Cataluña, Jorge Arenas-Gaitán, Patricio Esteban Ramírez-Correa

The purpose of this paper is to provide a complete and chronological view of the evolution of the main acceptance and use of technology models, from the 1970s to the present day…

Quantitative analysis of viable systems model on software projects in the ICT sector in Castilla y León

Julio César Puche Regaliza

The purpose of this paper is to detect the degree of influence between applying the Viable Systems Model (VSM), developed by Stafford Beer, on a software project and its viability…

A product-service system using requirement analysis and knowledge management technologies

Haihua Zhu, James Gao, Qixiang Cai

Product-service system (PSS) has been attracting attentions of global manufacturing to providing high-value added services in addition to their traditional product development and…

Editorial advisory board changes at Kybernetes

Magnus Ramage