Kybernetes: Volume 49 Issue 12

Governance role of media information’s uncertainty in IPO market-oriented pricing

Fei Zhang, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Jiafu Su, Sang-Bing Tsai, Yu-Ming Zhai

The purpose of this paper is to examine how signals of uncertainty in the media affect retail investor decisions and initial public offering (IPO) underpricing through theoretical…

An improved hybrid particle swarm optimization for multi-objective flexible job-shop scheduling problem

Yi Zhang, Haihua Zhu, Dunbing Tang

With the continuous upgrading of the production mode of the manufacturing system, the characteristics of multi-variety, small batch and mixed fluidization are presented, and the…

Fog computing in health management processing systems

Chao Fu, Qing Lv, Reza G. Badrnejad

Fog computing (FC) is a new field of research and has emerged as a complement to the cloud, which can mitigate the problems inherent to the cloud computing (CC) and internet of…

Three-way group decisions under hesitant fuzzy linguistic environment for green supplier selection

Weimin Ma, Wenjing Lei, Bingzhen Sun

The purpose of this paper is to propose a three-way group decision-making approach to address the selection of green supplier, by extending decision-theoretic rough set (DTRS…

Presentation of a school of government model through a comparative study of selected schools

Mohammad Abdolhosseinzadeh, Mahdi Abdolhamid

The purpose of this paper is to promote governance quality by presenting a school of government model.

Scheduling mechanisms in the cloud environment: a methodological analysis

Guan-hong Zhang, Odbal , Karlo Abnoosian

Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing (CC), there exist several users that require to execute their tasks by the available resources to obtain the best performance…

Towards techniques, challenges and efforts of software as a service layer based on business applications in cloud environments

Mojgan Fardinpour, Alireza Sadeghi Milani, Monire Norouzi

Cloud computing is qualified to present proper limitless storage and computation resources to users as services throughout the internet. Software as a service (SaaS) layer is the…

Dynamic evolution and coordination mechanism of RSSC under the steady-state quality constraints : Based on system dynamics and Markov chain model

Jianfei Li, Mengxia Sun, Li Ren, Bei Li

The advent of the new retail era witnessed the consumers’ demand shift from on the traditional product quality to on the full supply chain service quality, and product service and…

Assessment on health care service quality and patients’ satisfaction in Ghana

Enock Mintah Ampaw, Junwu Chai, Biru Liang, Sang-Bing Tsai, Joseph Frempong

With the exigencies of health-care service quality to actualize sustainable socio-economic and developmental aspirations, in both peripheral and core countries, this paper aims to…

Understanding the role of individual differences in mobile SNS addiction

Mingchuan Gong, Mengli Xu, Adeel Luqman, Lingling Yu, Ayesha Masood

The phenomenon of mobile social networking site (SNS) addiction has become increasingly severe nowadays and brings adverse outcomes to users’ daily life and work efficiency…

A hybrid method for forecasting new product sales based on fuzzy clustering and deep learning

Peng Yin, Guowei Dou, Xudong Lin, Liangliang Liu

The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of low accuracy in new product demand forecasting caused by the absence of historical data and inadequate consideration of…