Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 10

Editorial

Magnus Ramage, David Chapman, Patrick Wong

Trust evaluation between users of social networks using the quality of service requirements and call log histories

Parina Alamir, Nima Jafari Navimipour

As social networking services are popular, the need for recognizing reliable people has become the main concern. Quantifying the relationships between the users of social networks…

Resource scheduling in a private cloud environment: an efficiency priority perspective

Junfei Chu, Jie Wu, Qingyuan Zhu, Jiasen Sun

Resource scheduling is the study of how to effectively measure, evaluate, analyze, and dispatch resources in order to meet the demands of corresponding tasks. Aiming at the…

Research on the competitive dynamics and structured context analysis: Taking credit card issuing banks in Taiwan as an example

Wen Pei, Jeng-Huan Li

The credit card business has been one of the key businesses for banks in Taiwan. The purpose of this paper is to use competitive dynamics and structured context analysis (SCA) to…

Formalism for discrete multidimensional dynamic systems

Joan C. Micó, Antonio Caselles, David Soler, Pantaleón D. Romero

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a formalism given by an equation suitable for simulating discrete systems with space-time variation in addition to other change variables…

Customer credit scoring using a hybrid data mining approach

Mohammadali Abedini, Farzaneh Ahmadzadeh, Rassoul Noorossana

A crucial decision in financial services is how to classify credit or loan applicants into good and bad applicants. The purpose of this paper is to propose a four-stage hybrid…

Cross-emotional infection among multi-flight groups in mass flight delays

Meng Jia, Yingbao Yang

The purpose of this paper is to study dynamic evolution of passenger emotional contagion among different flights emerging in mass flight delays, so as to quantitatively analyze…

A jump-diffusion real option approach for hotel investment under uncertain lodging demand: The case of Macao

Rufei Ma, Pengxiang Zhai

One of the important characteristics of the hotel business is uncertainty of lodging demand, which can jeopardize hotel operation and ultimately even threaten a hotel’s survival…

Relationship between top management team internal social capital and strategic decision-making speed: The intermediary role of behavioral integration

Jiajun Gu, Fenghua Xie, Xingsi Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between top management team (TMT) internal social capital and strategic decision-making speed, and further explore role of…

Evaluating credit rating prediction by using the KMV model and random forest

Hsu-Che Wu, Yu-Ting Wu

An increasing number of investors have begun using financial data to develop optimal investment portfolios; therefore, the public financial data shared in the capital market plays…

Selection of risk response actions considering risk dependency

Yao Zhang, Fei Zuo

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to address the problem of selecting risk response actions (RRAs) considering the risk dependency that is seldom considered in the…

Behavioral biases on institutional investors: a literature review

Selim Aren, Sibel Dinç Aydemir, Yasin Şehitoğlu

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate published institutional investor research focused on home bias, disposition effect, and herding behavior in recognized journals and to…