Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 1

Guest editorial

José M. Merigó, Salvador Linares-Mustarós, Joan Carles Ferrer-Comalat

Simplifying credit scoring rules using LVQ + PSO

Laura Cristina Lanzarini, Augusto Villa Monte, Aurelio F. Bariviera, Patricia Jimbo Santana

One of the key elements in the banking industry relies on the appropriate selection of customers. To manage credit risk, banks dedicate special efforts to classify customers…

The basis for establishing one or more Europes

Jaime Gil Aluja

This work aims to ask for the possibility to establish one or more Europes in a heterogeneous territory where the main goal is to create a common space. The use of a specific…

Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness

Montserrat Yepes-Baldó, Sefa Boria-Reverter, Marina Romeo, Luis Torres

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), work-life balance (WLB) and effectiveness bycomparing a correlational…

A fuzzy methodology for innovation management measurement

Victor G. Alfaro-García, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Gerardo G. Alfaro Calderón

Innovation has been recognized as one of the main sources of competitive advantage for organizations and nations. The purpose of this study is to present an innovation management…

An assessment of OECD sustainable portfolios with a multi-criteria approach under uncertainty

Klender Cortez Alejandro, Martha del Pilar Rodríguez García

This paper aims to analyse the differences in financial performance portfolios between sustainable and non-sustainable firms through the use of portfolio theory and OptQuest…

Are European sovereign bond spreads in concordance with macroeconomic variables evolution?

M. Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas, Lisana B. Martinez, Antonio Terceño

The last great financial crisis which arose in the middle of 2007 in the USA produced contagion effects over others economies. The purpose of this paper is focused on analyzing…

Emergency care usage and longevity have opposite effects on health insurance rates

Xavier Piulachs, Ramon Alemany, Montserrat Guillen

This paper aimed to study the price of health insurance for individuals aged 65 years and over.

The OWA distance operator and its application in business failure

Valeria Scherger, Antonio Terceño, Hernán Vigier

The purpose of this paper is to develop a goodness index based on Hamming distance and ordered weighted averaging distance (OWAD), which is useful to make decisions. These…

Using a cycle reverting price process in modeling metal mining project profitability

Jyrki Savolainen, Mikael Collan, Pasi Luukka

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how managerial estimates of long-term market price trends can be included into investment analysis of metal mining. The inclusion of…

Using genetic algorithms to evolve type-2 fuzzy logic systems for predicting bankruptcy

Vasile Georgescu

Type-2 fuzzy sets became attractive in practice because of their footprint of uncertainty that gives them more degrees of freedom. This paper aims to use genetic algorithms (GAs…

A fuzzy model for the valuation of quality management system

Jose M. Brotons, Manuel E. Sansalvador

The economic effects resulting from the commitment to ISO 9001 certification is a controversial issue. Many authors have concluded about the positive economic effects resulting…

A comparative study of population-based algorithms for a political districting problem

Eric Alfredo Rincón-García, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez-Andrade, Sergio Gerardo de-los-Cobos-Silva, Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez, Antonin Ponsich, Pedro Lara-Velázquez

This paper aims to propose comparing the performance of three algorithms based on different population-based heuristics, particle swarm optimization (PSO), artificial bee colony…

A study of the strong Allee effect with fuzzy parameters for its application in economics

Dolors Corominas Coll, Joan Carles Ferrer-Comalat, Salvador Linares-Mustarós, Xavier Bertran

The purpose of this study is to present a detailed quantitative and qualitative fuzzy approach to the Allee effect that permits dealing with uncertainty.