Kybernetes: Volume 47 Issue 1

Solving customer insurance coverage sales plan problem using a multi-stage data mining approach

Farshid Abdi, Kaveh Khalili-Damghani, Shaghayegh Abolmakarem

Customer insurance coverage sales plan problem, in which the loyal customers are recognized and offered some special plans, is an essential problem facing insurance companies. On…

Study on an airport gate assignment method based on improved ACO algorithm

Wu Deng, Meng Sun, Huimin Zhao, Bo Li, Chunxiao Wang

This study aims to propose a new airport gate assignment method to effectively improve the comprehensive operation capacity and efficiency of hub airport. Gate assignment is one…

English vocabulary learning through recommender system based on sentence complexity and vocabulary difficulty

Mahboub Okhdar, Ali Ghaffari

Based on consideration of learner needs for expanding vocabulary and the complexity of educational content, this paper introduces a model aimed at facilitating English vocabulary…

Relating Wiener’s cybernetics aspects and a situation awareness model implementation for information security risk management

Kushal Anjaria, Arun Mishra

Situation awareness theory is a primary mean to take decisions and actions in a dynamically changing environment. Nowadays, to implement situation awareness, theories and models…

Affect and cognition, part 1: “cross-fire” interaction model

Gerhard Fink, Maurice Yolles

The purpose of this study is to develop a generic cultural socio-cognitive trait theory of a “plural affect agency” (the emotional organisation). Interaction between the cognitive…

Affect and cognition, part 2: affect types and mindset types

Gerhard Fink, Maurice Yolles

A typology of basic affective and cognitive orientations is developed within a generic cultural socio-cognitive trait theory of a “plural affect agency” (the emotional…

Analysis of a multi-echelon supply chain problem using revised multi-choice goal programming approach

Vahid Kayvanfar, Mohsen S. Sajadieh, S.M. Moattar Husseini, Behrooz Karimi

In this paper, a multi-objective multi-echelon supply-distribution model is proposed to optimize interactions of entities located within an Industrial Cluster (IC) including…

Sustainable development of agriculture: a system dynamics model

Mahdi Bastan, Reza Ramazani Khorshid-Doust, Saeid Delshad Sisi, Alimohammad Ahmadvand

Sustainable development is the management and conservation of the basic natural resources through which organizational and technological changes are lead to meet present and…

Reductionism ad absurdum: Attneave and Dennett cannot reduce Homunculus (and hence the mind)

Lance Nizami

Neuroscientists act as proxies for implied anthropomorphic signal-processing beings within the brain, Homunculi. The latter examine the arriving neuronal spike-trains to infer…

Antecedents and consequences of organizational ambidexterity: the moderating role of networking

Ayse Günsel, Erkut Altındağ, Selva Kılıç Keçeli, Hakan Kitapçı, Mahmut Hızıroğlu

The purpose of this paper is to develop a holistic model regarding the antecedents and consequences of organizational ambidexterity in the context of small and medium sized…

The pricing strategy for Fuji apple in Shaanxi of Chain under the e-commerce environment

Shujun Zhou, Bingzhen Sun, Weimin Ma, Xiangtang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to present a new method and model for determining the optimal decision-making for the pricing strategy to the Fuji apple in Shaanxi of Chain which is…

Organizational capabilities and knowledge management success: a quartet of case studies

Satyendra C. Pandey, Andrew Dutta, Amar KJR Nayak

The aim of this paper is to understand the role of organizational capabilities in knowledge management (KM) success pattern and how KM initiatives can be designed for…