Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 8

Multi-agent target searching with time constraints using game-theoretic approaches

Tanmoy Hazra, C.R.S. Kumar, Manisha Nene

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for a target searching problem in a two-dimensional region with time constraints. The proposed model facilitates the search…

Developing a new framework for evaluating e-learning systems: integrating BSC and FAHP

Mona Jami Pour, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Bagherzadeh Azar, Fatemeh Taheri

E-learning is one area of strategic application of information technology (IT) in the educational field. In the past, massive investments in e-learning systems have neither been…

Modeling socially responsible consumption and the need for uniqueness: a PLS-SEM approach

Andreia Gabriela Andrei, Patrizia Gazzola, Alexandra Zbuchea, Vlad Andrei Alexandru

The purpose of the present study is intended to fill a research gap, by advancing a conceptual model which brings novel insights on the relationships between socially responsible…

The association between stock price volatility and financial news – a sentiment analysis approach

Jia-Lang Seng, Hsiao-Fang Yang

The purpose of this study is to develop the dictionary with grammar and multiword structure has to be used in conjunction with sentiment analysis to investigate the relationship…

Succeeding a family business in a transition economy: is this the best that can happen to me?

Predrag Ljubotina, Jaka Vadnjal

Family business successors have three career options. They may find a job, start their own business or join their family business and eventually take it over. This broadens the…

A hybrid MCDM approach for performance evaluation in the banking industry

Mohammad Ali Beheshtinia, Sedighe Omidi

This paper aims to propose a hybrid multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique for performance evaluation of banks in which the banks are assessed and ranked according to…

Patients’ perceived risks in hospitals: a grey qualitative analysis

Camelia Delcea, Ioana-Alexandra Bradea

This study aims to analyze the major risk categories that could be encountered in hospitals and other medical facilities and attempts to determine which are more important from…

Financial evaluation of the convergent technologies development in a digital economy

Franja Pižmoht, József Györkös, Dijana Močnik

This paper aims to explore the digital economy in the fields of the most promising new technologies: information and communication technologies, biotechnology and nanotechnology…

A cooperative game approach to uncertain decentralized logistic systems subject to network reliability considerations

Hadi Heidari Gharehbolagh, Ashkan Hafezalkotob, Ahmad Makui, Sadigh Raissi

Maximum-flow of an uncertain multi-owner network has become very important recently. This study aims to evaluate the maximum flow on a cooperated logistic system in the presence…

Parsons, Luhmann, Spencer Brown. NOR design for double contingency tables

Steffen Roth

Cross tables are omnipresent in management, academia and popular culture. The Matrix has us, despite all criticism, opposition and desire for a way out. This paper draws on the…