Kybernetes: Volume 45 Issue 4

A system dynamics model of the nutritional stages of the Colombian population

Jose D Meisel, Olga L. Sarmiento, Camilo Olaya, Juan A Valdivia, Roberto Zarama

Overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity have in recent years become an important public health problem worldwide. Investigations that study obesity using a systemic approach…

An approach for green supplier selection in the automobile manufacturing industry

Qian Yu, Fujun Hou

The purpose of this paper is to study a modified multiplicative analytic hierarchy process (MMAHP) method, which is combined with multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and applied…

Aggregation cognitive maps procedure for group decision analysis

Annielli Araújo Rangel Cunha, José Leao Silva Filho, Danielle Costa Morais

Cognitive maps are used in group decision processes to structure problems. The problem structuring methods helps decision makers to improve the comprehension of the problem…

Posture labeling based gesture classification for Turkish sign language using depth values

Ediz Saykol, Halit Talha Türe, Ahmet Mert Sirvanci, Mert Turan

The purpose of this paper to classify a set of Turkish sign language (TSL) gestures by posture labeling based finite-state automata (FSA) that utilize depth values in…

Developing a general scientific methodology on tenets from Mario Bunges philosophy

Daniel Joh. Adriaenssen, Jon-Arild Johannessen

– The purpose of this paper is to present a general scientific methodology on tenets from Mario Bunge’s philosophy.

Case study: Application of enhanced Delphi method for software development and evaluation in medical institutes

Tsung-Han Yang, Cheng-Yuan Ku, Man-Nung Liu

In recent years, many development projects of the medical systems encounter difficulties and eventually fail. Failure is often due to very complicated and changeable medical…

Constructing ZSCORE-based financial crisis warning models using fruit fly optimization algorithm and general regression neural network

Tsui-Hua Huang, Yungho Leu, Wen-Tsao Pan

In order to avoid enterprise crisis and cause the domino effect, which influences the investment return of investors, the national economy, and financial crisis, establishing a…

A cross evaluation-based measure of super efficiency in DEA with interval data

Qian Yu, Fujun Hou

The traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) model as a non-parametric technique can measure the relative efficiencies of a decision-making units (DMUs) set with exact values…

Management and governance: organizational culture in relation to enterprise life cycle

Jernej Belak

The behaviour of an enterprise (including ethical behaviour) strongly depends on the organization’s culture, values and beliefs. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that…

Evaluation of critical factors for the regional innovation system within the HsinChu science-based park

Chung-Lin Tsai, Han-Chao Chang

The purpose of this paper is to collate relevant literature on the theoretical background of regional innovation systems and factors that impact the operational effectiveness of…